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Date:      Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:50:16 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Directory rename semantics.
Message-ID:  <gf1a1k$gbo$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081107111022.GB34757@submonkey.net>
References:  <20081027193545.GA95872@pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>	<20081028161855.GA45129@zim.MIT.EDU>	<20081106192829.GA98742@pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>	<20081106195558.GG2281@submonkey.net> <20081107111022.GB34757@submonkey.net>

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Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:55:58PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 08:28:29PM +0100, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrot=
e:
>>> After discussion about this with rwatson and pjd, I decided to do
>>> the opposite: change ZFS behaviour to match UFS.  Reason is simple:
>>> this is security, and we want to be conservative here.  It's impossib=
le
>>> to make sure this change wouldn't cause security problems.
>> Perhaps it would have been better to either do nothing or create a zfs=

>> property that toggled this behaviour so that people who expect ZFS to
>> behave a certain way get it.  I'm not sure why we would want all
>> filesystems to behave the same way, to be honest.
>=20
> I'm essentially unhappy here that a change to UFS which is local to us
> was considered important enough to ask -arch about, while ZFS which
> exists on at least two other operating systems was deemed fine to go
> ahead and change without review.

I think it has something to do with the percentage of "our" users
running UFS vs ZFS :)



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