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

[Namjae Jeon]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 4:19 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Can you make this more clear in the help text?
Sure, I'll update it.
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> > Furthermore, By enabling this feature, we can pass more xfstests test
> > cases.
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> 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.
I agreed. and xfstests already handles acl detection correctly..

Thanks!
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