lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2016]   [Mar]   [11]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
    /
    Date
    From
    SubjectRe: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4)
    On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 06:01:34AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 09:17:05AM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
    > > Al,
    > >
    > > could you please make sure you are happy with the current version of the
    > > richacl patch queue for the next merge window?
    >
    > I'm still not happy.
    >
    > For one I still see no reason to merge this broken ACL model at all.
    > It provides our actualy Linux users no benefit at all, while breaking
    > a lot of assumptions, especially by adding allow and deny ACE at the
    > same sime.

    Could you explain what you mean by "adding allow and deny ACE at the
    same time"?

    > It also doesn't help with the issue that the main thing it's trying
    > to be compatible with (Windows) actually uses a fundamentally different
    > identifier to apply the ACLs to - as long as you're still limited
    > to users and groups and not guids we'll still have that mapping problem
    > anyway.

    Agreed, but, one step at a time? My impression is that the Samba people
    still consider this a step forward for Linux compatibility.

    --b.

    >
    > But besides that fundamental question on the purpose of it I also
    > don't think the code is suitable, more in the individual patches.

    \
     
     \ /
      Last update: 2016-03-11 15:41    [W:8.379 / U:0.088 seconds]
    ©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site