Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to ask a stupid question, and I probably missed something > in the 52 patches, but.... I see how the credential is used to do > access checks, but why does the credentials record need to passed all > the way into block allocator? What is it used for there?
Ext2, 3 & 4 use it to determine whether someone has the right to use the reserved space according to whether their UID/GID match those in the superblock. See ext3_has_free_blocks() for an example. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
