From: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: <dsterba@suse.cz>, Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>,
<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>,
Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
"Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
"Dave Chinner" <david@fromorbit.com>,
Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
<linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org>, Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>,
Miao Xie <miaoxie@huawei.com>,
Li Guifu <bluce.liguifu@huawei.com>,
Fang Wei <fangwei1@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 11/24] erofs: introduce xattr & posixacl support
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 23:21:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190902152139.GB179615@architecture4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190902150640.GA23089@infradead.org>
Hi Christoph,
On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 08:06:40AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 04:20:37PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> > Oh right, I think the reasons are historical and that we can remove the
> > options nowadays. From the compatibility POV this should be safe, with
> > ACLs compiled out, no tool would use them, and no harm done when the
> > code is present but not used.
> >
> > There were some efforts by embedded guys to make parts of kernel more
> > configurable to allow removing subsystems to reduce the final image
> > size. In this case I don't think it would make any noticeable
> > difference, eg. the size of fs/btrfs/acl.o on release config is 1.6KiB,
> > while the whole module is over 1.3MiB.
>
> Given that the erofs folks have an actual use case for it I think
> it is fine to keep the options, I just wanted to ensure this wasn't
> copy and pasted for no good reason. Note that for XFS we don't have
> an option for xattrs, as those are integral to a lot of file system
> features. WE have an ACL option mostly for historic reasons.
Add a word, xattr is necessary for Android, but ACL is not.
I'm fine with killing these two, but EROFS can be used in
more wider embedded scenerios (other than Android), I have
no idea xattrs is useful for those embedded devices...
Thanks,
Gao Xiang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-02 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-15 4:41 [PATCH v8 00/24] erofs: promote erofs from staging v8 Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 01/24] erofs: add on-disk layout Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 02/24] erofs: add erofs in-memory stuffs Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 03/24] erofs: add super block operations Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 04/24] erofs: add raw address_space operations Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 05/24] erofs: add inode operations Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 06/24] erofs: support special inode Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 07/24] erofs: add directory operations Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-15 16:46 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 08/24] erofs: add namei functions Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 09/24] erofs: support tracepoint Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 10/24] erofs: update Kconfig and Makefile Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 11/24] erofs: introduce xattr & posixacl support Gao Xiang
2019-09-02 12:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-02 13:05 ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-02 13:06 ` David Sterba
2019-09-02 13:51 ` Chao Yu
2019-09-02 14:20 ` David Sterba
2019-09-02 15:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-02 15:10 ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-02 15:21 ` Gao Xiang [this message]
2019-09-03 6:30 ` Chao Yu
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 12/24] erofs: introduce tagged pointer Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 13/24] erofs: add compression indexes support Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 14/24] erofs: introduce superblock registration Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 15/24] erofs: introduce erofs shrinker Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 16/24] erofs: introduce workstation for decompression Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 17/24] erofs: introduce per-CPU buffers implementation Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 18/24] erofs: introduce pagevec for decompression subsystem Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 19/24] erofs: add erofs_allocpage() Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 20/24] erofs: introduce generic decompression backend Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 16:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-30 16:52 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 16:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 21/24] erofs: introduce LZ4 decompression inplace Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 22/24] erofs: introduce the decompression frontend Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 23/24] erofs: introduce cached decompression Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 4:41 ` [PATCH v8 24/24] erofs: add document Gao Xiang
2019-08-15 9:06 ` [PATCH v8 00/24] erofs: promote erofs from staging v8 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-15 16:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-15 17:04 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-22 14:16 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 17:11 ` Miao Xie
2019-08-30 7:48 ` Chao Yu
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