Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:55:58 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Directory rename semantics. Message-ID: <20081106195558.GG2281@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20081106192829.GA98742@pin.if.uz.zgora.pl> References: <20081027193545.GA95872@pin.if.uz.zgora.pl> <20081028161855.GA45129@zim.MIT.EDU> <20081106192829.GA98742@pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
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On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 08:28:29PM +0100, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
> 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 impossible
> 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.
Ceri
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That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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