Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Oct 2015 02:49:35 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8 00/41] Richacls |
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On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 02:58:36PM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > I think the point is that a new VFS feature that is easy to integrate in > multiple filesystems should have support for those filesystems. A decade > ago, just having ext* support would probably have been fine, but these days, > XFS, BTRFS, and F2FS are used just as much (if not more) on production > systems as ext4, and having support for them right from the start would > significantly help with adoption of richacls.
That's one reason. The other is that actually wiring it up for more than a single consumer shows its actually reasonable generic. I don't want to end up with a situration like Posix ACLs again where different file systems using different on disk formats again.
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