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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
	lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>,
	Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>,
	Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>,
	Ganesha NFS List <nfs-ganesha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	DENIEL Philippe <philippe.deniel@cea.fr>,
	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>,
	Frank S Filz <ffilz@us.ibm.com>, Jim Lieb <jlieb@panasas.com>,
	Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [1/8] readdir-plus system call - LSF/MM follow up
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 08:38:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130604153848.GA26106@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130529140456.GA28385@pad.fieldses.org>

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:04:56AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> An odd exception: in the presence of "posix" acls, "ls -l" requests an
> acl for every entry, so it can decide whether or not to add a "+" after
> the mode (which indicates the presence of a non-trivial acl.) Judging
> from http://www.bestbits.at/richacl/example.html, the same is intended
> (but not yet implemented) for richacls.
> 
> Maybe if that case were common, there'd be some advantage to ls being
> able to do a readdir plus to the nfs client that the nfs client could
> translate into a single readdir to the server?
> 
> But I hope it doesn't come to that.

Having a xstat flag that a filesystem can set meaning there is no
additional security information would be way more efficient for the
common case.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-04 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-08 10:19 [LSF/MM TOPIC (expanded) 0/8] New API's for better exporting of VFS from user-mode daemons Boaz Harrosh
2013-04-08 10:22 ` [1/8] readdir-plus system call Boaz Harrosh
2013-04-08 10:26   ` Steven Whitehouse
2013-04-08 15:18     ` [Nfs-ganesha-devel] " Matt W. Benjamin
2013-04-08 13:51   ` DENIEL Philippe
2013-04-08 19:02   ` Abhijith Das
2013-04-10 20:31     ` Andreas Dilger
2013-05-24 16:14     ` [1/8] readdir-plus system call - LSF/MM follow up Abhijith Das
2013-05-24 19:41       ` Zach Brown
2013-05-28 14:49         ` Abhijith Das
2013-05-28 15:13           ` Jim Lieb
     [not found]             ` <OF27E1911F.3FBABA22-ON87257B79.005C087F-88257B79.005C320B@us.ibm.com>
2013-05-29  0:57               ` Jim Lieb
     [not found]                 ` <OF067A3B49.F63109B6-ON87257B7A.00137A60-88257B7A.00140BC7@us.ibm.com>
2013-05-29 10:06                   ` Jeff Layton
2013-05-29 14:04                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-06-04 15:38                       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2013-06-04 15:52                         ` [Lsf-pc] " J. Bruce Fields
2013-05-29 16:52                   ` Re: Re: " Jim Lieb
2013-05-28 20:00           ` Andreas Dilger
2013-05-28 20:11             ` Abhijith Das
2013-04-08 10:25 ` [LSF/MM TOPIC (expanded) 0/8] New API's for better exporting of VFS from user-mode daemons Steven Whitehouse
2013-04-08 10:25 ` [2/8] Sane locks (UNPOSIX locks) Boaz Harrosh
2013-04-08 12:02   ` [Lsf-pc] " Jeff Layton
2013-04-08 10:28 ` [3/8] File delegations, Usermode API of Bruce's pending patches Boaz Harrosh
2013-04-08 10:32 ` [4/8] PNFS ioctls/syscall Boaz Harrosh
2013-04-08 10:36 ` [5/8] syscall_cred() a system call that receives alternate CREDs Boaz Harrosh
2013-04-08 13:54   ` DENIEL Philippe
2013-04-08 14:42   ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-04-08 14:58     ` Boaz Harrosh
2013-04-08 18:23     ` Jim Lieb
2013-04-08 18:31       ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-04-08 19:45         ` Jim Lieb
2013-04-08 21:33           ` Boaz Harrosh
2013-04-09 16:40             ` Jim Lieb
2013-04-08 10:42 ` [6/8] Rich ACLs (continued, drive through this time) Boaz Harrosh
2013-04-08 11:12   ` Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2013-04-08 14:27   ` Venkateswararao Jujjuri
2013-04-08 10:43 ` [7/8] Single call interface to getattr/setattr Boaz Harrosh
     [not found]   ` <OF4A1A78E0.CB4DED3E-ON87257B47.00549E35-88257B47.005520A8@us.ibm.com>
2013-04-08 16:41     ` Boaz Harrosh
2013-04-08 10:45 ` [8/8] Fix fsnotify short comings (single fd with recursive notifications) Boaz Harrosh
2013-04-08 13:59   ` DENIEL Philippe
2013-04-08 15:22     ` Al Viro
2013-04-08 15:36     ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-04-08 14:31 ` [LSF/MM TOPIC (expanded) 0/8] New API's for better exporting of VFS from user-mode daemons Venkateswararao Jujjuri

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