Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 17 May 2023 09:50:02 +0200 | | From | Christian Brauner <> | | Subject | Re: A pass-through support for NFSv4 style ACL |
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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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