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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> 
> I don't think you want to just set the incore inode security state on
> the client side, as that won't be preserved.

I agree. The fix seems much worse than the problem.

It doesn't seem to be a kernel bug (except insofar that you can argue that 
enabling ACL's at all is a bug), and it also doesn't look like a 
regression.

		Linus