From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: Reiser4 and ACLs Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 14:55:22 -0500 Message-ID: <42FFA1AA.1070105@slaphack.com> References: <42FEC9F1.9040709@perkel.com> <20050814080812.GA22983@king.bitgnome.net> <42FF388F.3010506@perkel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <42FF388F.3010506@perkel.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Marc Perkel Cc: reiser@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Marc Perkel wrote: > > > Mark Nipper wrote: > >>On 13 Aug 2005, Marc Perkel wrote: >> >> >>>So - how do you get Reiser 4 to work with ACLs? Can't find a mount >>>option in any docs. >>> >>> >> >> They are not supported yet under Reiser4. I'm sure this >>is keeping just a few people from early adoption at the moment. >>:) >> >> >> > I had been reading that the very reason you want to use Reiser 4 is > because that's where the ACLs were going to be. It is after all built on > a database No, it's not. It's just easy to build a database on top of, without having to redesign the storage system. As I said in my last message, go read the whitepaper. > How can there be a claim that Reiser4 is ready to be merged into the > Kernel without ACL support? Because things don't have to have every feature imaginable to be merged. In fact, quite the opposite -- they have to be sane and stable.