Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH 3/4] Add extended attributes to ext2/3

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:41:43PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:20:38PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:14:00PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > > Users might just fill up all xattr space leaving no space for ACLs (or 
> > > similar). If user xattrs are disabled this can no longer occur, so some 
> > > administrators might be happy to have a choice.
> > 
> > Umm, that's why we have quota..
> 
> It's the per-inode extended attribute space that's at risk here,
> quotas don't help.

Well, that's a more important problem.  But I doubt a hack to just turn off
user xattrs is the right fix then.  A static reservation for ACLs or just
totally separating them (like in XFS) seems more måture.