Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Thu, 23 Sep 1999 18:58:00 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: Ext3 filesystem info? |
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Hi,
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:13:28 +0200, Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@idb.hist.no> said:
> Seems to me that some of this can be solved with a good generic > ACL interface in the VFS. Various filesystems may then implement > more or less of the VFS interface depending on what they support. > Just as some filesystems implement links and some don't.
ACLs are just far too varied to be combined effectively in a single API. We support distributed filesystems like AFS in which the server's notion of who a user is is completely foreign to the kernel's uid/gid scheme: how do you propose to identify such users when manipulating AFS ACLs?
--Stephen
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