On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 02:58:36PM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > I think the point is that a new VFS feature that is easy to integrate in > multiple filesystems should have support for those filesystems. A decade > ago, just having ext* support would probably have been fine, but these days, > XFS, BTRFS, and F2FS are used just as much (if not more) on production > systems as ext4, and having support for them right from the start would > significantly help with adoption of richacls. That's one reason. The other is that actually wiring it up for more than a single consumer shows its actually reasonable generic. I don't want to end up with a situration like Posix ACLs again where different file systems using different on disk formats again. -- 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
