On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 02:45:39PM -0700, Sage Weil wrote: > > This lets an administrator give non-root users access to the btrfs > > transaction start/end ioctls via a mount option. > > > > Currently any process using the ioctls must run as root. That's > > appropriate in general, since the ioctls allow let any process to hang fs > > commits by holding an open transaction indefinitely. But on locked down > > hosts (i.e. no users), that can be inconvenient because daemons using > > transactions have to run as root. > > If the system is locked down there is no problem giving the capability > to the daemon user. I'm strong against adding any kind of > privilegue-evading options to filesystems.
Well, I was hoping for finer granularity that CAP_SYS_ADMIN, but i can live with it. Thanks. sage -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
