From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][7/7] add xattr support to ramfs
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:59:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040823205942.GA3370@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093292789.27211.279.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil>
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:26:29PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 16:26, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:22:20PM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> > > This patch adds xattr support to tmpfs, and a security xattr handler.
> > > Original patch from: Chris PeBenito <pebenito@gentoo.org>
> >
> > What's the point on doing this for ramfs? And if you really want this
> > the implementation could be shared with tmpfs easily and put into xattr.c
>
> For udev.
What's wrong with using a tmpfs for udev in such situations that xattrs
are needed? udev does not require ramfs at all. In fact, why not just
use a ext2 or ext3 partition for /dev instead today, if you really need
it?
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-23 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-23 18:14 [PATCH][0/7] xattr consolidation and support for ramfs & tmpfs James Morris
2004-08-23 18:15 ` [PATCH][1/7] xattr consolidation - libfs James Morris
2004-08-23 18:16 ` [PATCH][2/7] xattr consolidation - LSM hook changes James Morris
2004-08-23 18:17 ` [PATCH][3/7] xattr consolidation - ext3 James Morris
2004-08-23 18:18 ` [PATCH][4/7] xattr consolidation - ext2 James Morris
2004-08-23 18:19 ` [5/7] xattr consolidation - devpts James Morris
2004-08-23 18:20 ` [PATCH][6/7] add xattr support to tmpfs James Morris
2004-08-23 18:22 ` [PATCH][7/7] add xattr support to ramfs James Morris
2004-08-23 20:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-23 20:26 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-08-23 20:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-23 20:59 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-08-23 21:27 ` [PATCH][7/7] add xattr support to ramfs [u] Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-08-24 0:52 ` [PATCH][7/7] add xattr support to ramfs Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-08-24 11:27 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-08-25 7:03 ` Miles Bader
2004-08-25 13:14 ` James Morris
2004-08-23 19:06 ` [PATCH][6/7] add xattr support to tmpfs Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-23 19:03 ` [PATCH][2/7] xattr consolidation - LSM hook changes Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-23 19:06 ` James Morris
2004-08-23 19:13 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-08-24 0:54 ` James Morris
2004-08-24 2:52 ` viro
2004-08-24 19:27 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2004-08-23 23:28 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-08-23 18:49 ` [PATCH][1/7] xattr consolidation - libfs Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-24 4:32 ` James Morris
2004-08-24 10:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-24 19:42 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2004-08-24 20:19 ` James Morris
2004-08-24 19:41 ` [PATCH][0/7] xattr consolidation and support for ramfs & tmpfs Andreas Gruenbacher
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