From: Timothy Shimmin Subject: Re: [PATCH] add unrestricted_chown option to vfs (mount) Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:57:34 +1100 Message-ID: <493DFABE.5020007@sgi.com> References: <20081209042725.GA31729@niraj-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, nick.couchman@seakr.com, hch@lst.de To: Niraj Kumar Return-path: Received: from relay3.sgi.com ([192.48.171.31]:50351 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750794AbYLIFGG (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2008 00:06:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081209042725.GA31729@niraj-laptop> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Niraj Kumar wrote: > > Unrestricted chown: adds "unrestricted_chown" mount option. > > Add a new unrestricted_chown mount option to the VFS. This option is > used to disable the Posix _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED chown option on a given > filesystem which forbids non-privilegued users to give away files. > > This is currently implemented by XFS as a sysctl, but making it per > filesystem and available not just for XFS makes more sense. This has > also been requested in http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=768. > This sysctl has actually been removed in the sgi xfs tree. So it will be going from mainline. --Tim