Why is FIBMAP ioctl root only?

  Hi,

  I guess subject says it all - why is FIBMAP ioctl restricted only to
root (CAP_SYS_RAWIO)? Corresponding ioctl for XFS is allowed without any
special capabilities so we are inconsistent here too...
  Would anyone mind if the check is removed?

								Honza
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Jan Kara <[email protected]>
SuSE CR Labs
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