On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:08:51AM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > Hello, > > here's another update of the richacl patch queue. At this stage, I would > like to ask for final feedback so that the core and ext4 code (patches > 1-19) can be merged in the 4.4 merge window. The nfsd and nfs code should > then go through the respective maintainer trees. Now way in this form even if everyone agrees we should have these bastard ACLs. I certainly disagree. Ayway, back to the VFS <-> FS interface. You still require tons of boilderplate code in the filesystem which isn't required and we got rid of for Posix ACLs. The filesystem should not look at the userspace xattr format, please follow a model similar to ->get_acl and ->set_acl for Posix ACLs. After that the wire up should be so trivial that you can wire up btrfs, xfs and f2fs as well, which is important to make the feature mergeable. And honestly I tink adding even more overload to xattrs is a really bad idea and after 10 years of experience with that junk we really need to learn and make new overloads proper system calls. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
