Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Nov 2001 21:50:58 +1100 | From | Nathan Scott <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] extended attributes |
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hi Tim,
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 04:08:50AM -0500, Tim R. wrote: > I'm glad to see you guys are working on a common acl api for ext2/3 and xfs. > I was just wondering if this api provided what would be needed for linux > to support NTFS's acls. > Now bare in mind I know little about how NTFS's alc's are implimented or > if they follow POSIX at > all. But I just thought it might be worth asking the ntfs maintainer if > the proposed api would be > adaquit to support ntfs's acls on linux should they ever want to > impliment this. Might save them > headaches someday.
The API doesn't favour any one form of ACL - it allows for any implementation to be layered above it, provided the semantics of those ACLs can be expressed using extended attributes, of course.
> Also will it supply the interface needed for other filesystems that have > been ported that linux that > support acls? (i.e. will it work for them, could they use it in the > future if/when they decide to > impliment that feature) I think JFS might support acls too.
Yes, I believe so. I see EA and ACL support is on the JFS todo list - I was contacted by some folk at IBM who let me know this, so there is certainly some interest there.
cheers.
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