Re: extended acls..

Sriram Ramkrishna
2009-05-19T18:16:54Z

Hi Josef,

Thanks, I will take it to linux-fsdevel.

sri

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 09:50:42AM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I'm curious if there is any plans to add extended acls ala AFS? =C2=A0=
The
>> reason I ask is that it seems in Linux we don't seem have moved off =
of
>> POSIX style acls and I think there is definitely at least from my
>> perspective that having a richer set of acl would be needed. =C2=A0F=
or
>> instance, we would need acls to deal with controlled countries if we
>> are sharing data with them etc. =C2=A0It is a big shame that there i=
s no
>> RFC for extended ACLs.
>>
>> Also, I would like to help out with development, I'm a newbie as far
>> as kernel level hacking goes. =C2=A0If there is a place I can go tha=
t I can
>> start off small that would be lovely.
>>
>
> Extending ACLs beyond POSIX ACLs is a more generic topic that should =
probably be
> discussed elsewhere, perhaps linux-fsdevel. =C2=A0Its not going to do=
much good to
> implement yet another extended ACL implementation in BTRFS if no othe=
r Linux fs
> has the ability to use the same feature, so figuring out the details =
of
> extending ACLs should be done before doing them in btrfs. =C2=A0Thank=
s,
>
> Josef
>

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