Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2000 08:43:47 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: Capabilities |
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Can you send me a URL describing what you do with capabilities? Has Linus agreed that he likes them?
Hans
Matthew Kirkwood wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Hans Reiser wrote: > > Hi Hans, > > > Reiserfs is a socially inclusive project, and if someone wants a field > > added, they should just talk to us. > > > > There is a reason why our motto is "It takes more than a license to > > make source code open." > > Agreed, and thanks. > > > Particularly, if you want an optional field added, talk to us, dynamic > > space allocation is a strength of our approach, and putting support > > for you in a next major version of reiserfs is something we will do if > > you send me an email/URL that convinces me your work is valuable (I am > > ignorant of it, educate me.) > > Ah, I wasn't aware that was possible. I had assumed that your > stat_data was rather fixed in size. > > That being the case, I would like: > > __u32 flags; /* ext2 compatible file flags */ Why this? > __u32 cap_allowed; /* allowed capabilities */ > __u32 cap_forced; /* forced capabilities */ > > If you can do that without breaking the disk format, then it ^can^can't ???? > can wait for 2.5, otherwise I think it would make sense for > them to appear in 2.3 (assuming that the format has already > changed for the 2.3 port?).
We have not shipped the 2.3 port to Linus yet.
> > Matthew, Ted - would I be stepping on anyone's toes if I > implemented the VFS extended flag handling now and tried to > get it pushed in for 2.4? > > Matthew.
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