Re: [PATCH v5 13/14] ntfs: add Kconfig and Makefile

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 02:08:01PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> > > +
> > > +       If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
> >
> > This looks like a new feature over the old driver.  What is the
> > use case for it?
> The POSIX ACLs support is intended to ensure functional parity and ABI
> compatibility with the existing ntfs3 driver, which already supports
> this feature. Since this ntfs aims to be a replacement for ntfs3,
> providing the same mount options and permission model is essential for
> a seamless user transition.

Can you make this more clear in the help text?


> Furthermore, By enabling this feature, we can pass more xfstests test
> cases.

Passing more tests only really matters when they were failing before,
and lack of Posix ACL code should not lead to failures - if it does
we need to improve feature detection in xfstests.