Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4)

Jeremy Allison
2016-03-15T15:46:22Z

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:11:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 05:11:51PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > > while breaking a lot of assumptions,
> >
> > The model is designed specifically to be compliant with the POSIX
> > permission model. What assumptions are you talking about?
>
> People have long learned that we only have 'alloc' permissions. Any
> model that mixes allow and deny ACE is a mistake.

People can also learn and change though :-). One of the
biggest complaints people deploying Samba on Linux have is the
incompatible ACL models.

Whilst I have sympathy with your intense dislike of the
Windows ACL model, this comes down to the core of "who
do we serve ?" IMHO we should serve the users (although
I must confess I'd look awful in a TRON suit :-).