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From: bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields)
To: Andreas Gruenbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/21] Richacls
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:48:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150227224846.GB8750@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1424907511.git.agruenba@redhat.com>

Thanks for this!

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:41:21AM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> At this point, I would like to ask for your feedback as to what should
> be changed before these patches can be merged, even if merging these
> patches alone doesn't make a while lot of sense.  I will follow up
> with additional pieces to the puzzle like the nfsv4 support as I get
> them into shape again.

I remember my main concern being how we collapse the ACL and mask bits
to map a richacl to an NFSv4 (or Samba) ACL.  I can't remember what the
compromise there ended up being.  I guess I'll watch for that when it
comes.

--b.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-27 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-25 23:41 [RFC 00/21] Richacls Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 01/21] vfs: Minor documentation fix Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 02/21] vfs: Shrink struct posix_acl Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 03/21] vfs: Add IS_ACL() and IS_RICHACL() tests Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 04/21] vfs: Add MAY_CREATE_FILE and MAY_CREATE_DIR permission flags Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 05/21] vfs: Add MAY_DELETE_SELF and MAY_DELETE_CHILD " Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 06/21] vfs: Make the inode passed to inode_change_ok non-const Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 07/21] vfs: Add permission flags for setting file attributes Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 08/21] richacl: In-memory representation and helper functions Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 09/21] richacl: Permission mapping functions Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 10/21] richacl: Compute maximum file masks from an acl Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 11/21] richacl: Update the file masks in chmod() Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 12/21] richacl: Permission check algorithm Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 13/21] richacl: Create-time inheritance Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 14/21] richacl: Check if an acl is equivalent to a file mode Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 15/21] richacl: Automatic Inheritance Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 16/21] richacl: xattr mapping functions Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 17/21] vfs: Cache base_acl objects in inodes Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 18/21] vfs: Cache richacl in struct inode Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 19/21] vfs: Add richacl permission checking Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 20/21] ext4: Implement rich acl for ext4 Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-25 23:41 ` [RFC 21/21] ext4: Add richacl feature flag Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-27 22:48 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2015-02-28  0:11   ` [RFC 00/21] Richacls Andreas Grünbacher
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-02-25 23:31 Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-02-26  5:44 ` Michael Kerrisk

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