Olaf Dietsche <olaf.dietsche#list.linux-kernel@t-online.de> writes:
> "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
>
>> HOWEVER, if we're going to do it, Olaf's patches is really not the way
>> to do it. If we're going to do it at all, the right way to do it is
>> via extended attributes. Using a sparse file to store capabilities
>> indexed by inode numbers is a bad idea; it will break if the user uses
>> resize2fs on an ext2/3 filesystem, for example.
>
> Dragging yet another one out of you. This is a pretty strong argument
> against my implementation. Any other hints?
With dumping capabilities before resize and restoring them afterwards,
you can solve this. See:
<http://home.t-online.de/home/olaf.dietsche/linux/capability/dumpcaps.pl>
Regards, Olaf.
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