Re: some project ideas: NFS4 ACLs, resilience on the same device, allowing to specify which devices are "distinct" in a RAID

[Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@libero.it>]

On 06/07/2014 03:34 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 19:03 +0200, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
>> There is (was ?) a project to address that: richacl
>> http://www.bestbits.at/richacl/. This is not a btrfs project, but a
>> linux kernel project because from a filesystem  POV the
>> implementation requires to store some information in a extended
>> attributes: the check is performed at the VFS level.
> 
>>> Now one could create a RAID5 on them, but apparently sda1 and
>>> sda2 are on the same disk... so I'd like a way to tell btrfs that
>>> these are the "same" and not really that redundant.
>> 
>> Hugo Mill worked on something related to that [1]
>> 
>> [1] "Thoughts on RAID nomenclature"
>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg33782.html
> 
> 
> Thanks for the info... should I put those 3 ideas to the 
> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas page? Or is
> that just meant to be edited by the developers?
> 

You can add new ideas to the wiki pages, supporting by link and other info were available. This is the real nature of the wiki pages.

However I am still convinced richacl/nfs4 acl are not strictly related to a specific filesystem.

BR

> Cheers, Chris.
> 


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