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SubjectRe: A pass-through support for NFSv4 style ACL
On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 12:45:13AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 09:42:59AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > I have no idea about the original flame war that ended RichACLs in
> > additition to having no clear clue what RichACLs are supposed to
> > achieve. My current knowledge extends to "Christoph didn't like them".
>
> Christoph certainly doesn't like Rich ACLs, as do many other people.
>
> But the deal block was that the patchset:
>
> - totally duplicated the VFS level ACL handling instead of having
> a common object for Posix and the new ACLs

Which seems like a pretty obvious choice... That was the first thing I
thought of doing (see earlier mail).

> - did add even more mess to the already horrible xattr interface
> instead of adding syscalls.

Plus that was before I moved POSIX ACLs out of the xattr handlers so
they would've had to get that work done first for this to not end up a
horrible horrible mess...

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