#2906 NORM Untriag: COW support in build kernels

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#2906: COW support in build kernels
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  Reporter:  cscott  |       Owner:  dilinger 
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Untriaged
 Component:  distro  |     Version:           
Resolution:          |    Keywords:           
  Verified:  0       |  
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Comment (by cscott):

 Just to more completely document the issue, from IRC:

 (03:03:09 PM) dwmw2_gone: cscott: please don't copy me on jffs2 bugs which
 aren't relevant to support{ed,able} kernels.

 (03:05:40 PM) Ashsong_home: dwmw2_gone: I believe he cc'ed you just to
 make sure that we had correctly understood that you agreed that the
 Herbert was the right person to judge the correctness of the patch
 including a generic_sendpage method in the JFFS2 filesystem table.

 (03:07:00 PM) Ashsong_home: dwmw2_gone: (Andres had asked for your opinion
 on the patch, and Herbert told me that the two of you had negotiated it,
 but I wasn't party to that conversation, so I felt I couldn't speak
 authoritatively to Andres on your behalf)

 (03:07:09 PM) dwmw2_gone: I'll have said _I'm_ not interested unless it's
 in the context of upstream merging. Which isn't quite the same as what you
 said.

 (03:07:44 PM) dwmw2_gone: we had a conversation a while ago which I don't
 remember very well. At the time, I didn't really think we were ever going
 to be that silly

 (03:08:24 PM) dwmw2_gone: we have a (quick hack) fix for the ACL-related
 permissions problem which actually exists upstream

 (03:08:33 PM) dwmw2_gone: without vserver, I cannot reproduce the other
 permissions problem

 (03:09:11 PM) dwmw2_gone: although it's possible that it's a latent jffs2
 bug -- which would want fixing anyway

 (03:09:16 PM) C. Scott Ananian: dwmw2_gone: for the purposes of the trac
 bug, all i was looking for was a quick "yes i don't care if this goes in"
 on record.

 (03:09:40 PM) dwmw2_gone: cscott: Go ahead; I don't care a jot.

 (03:09:46 PM) C. Scott Ananian: dwmw2_gone: thx

 (03:10:39 PM) Ashsong_home: dwmw2_gone: With respect to the permissions
 problem, we're content to just turn off POSIX ACLs.

 (POSIX ACLs being libacl, not POSIX standard user/group/other permissions)

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