Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:31:46 +1100 | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/28] Patches to pass vfsmount to LSM inode security hooks |
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On Tuesday February 6, hch@infradead.org wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:51:52AM -0800, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > Who cares? There is no way to export a partial directory, and in any > > case the subtree_check crap is borken beyond repair (see cross-directory > > renames which lead to actual changes to the filehandle - broken, broken, > > broken!!!!). > > It's getting a little oftopic for this thread, but is there a chance we > could just kill that crap after a resonable deprecation period?
Probably. A couple of years? nfs-utils 1.1.0 is due to stop subtree_check from being the default. After that is released, the next kernel can start printing warnings that it might stop working in a couple of years.
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