From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sriram Ramkrishna Subject: Re: extended acls.. Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 11:16:54 -0700 Message-ID: <42ab06770905191116v18e42ce7w3ab7c35e131d6eef@mail.gmail.com> References: <42ab06770905190950x5077edb0s3c55bd1c39ebeebe@mail.gmail.com> <20090519180608.GC7472@dhcp231-156.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Josef Bacik Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090519180608.GC7472@dhcp231-156.rdu.redhat.com> List-ID: Hi Josef, Thanks, I will take it to linux-fsdevel. sri On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Josef Bacik 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 > --=20 -- Sriram Ramkrishna (sriram.ramkrishna_@@_@.gmail.com (remove _@@_) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html