On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 08:54:32AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 06:05:01AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > We don't need to ape Windows in everything. > > The coming ACL disaster will show that (we will go from an ACL > > model that is slightly too complex to use, to one that is impossibly > > complex to use :-). > > Care to elaborate? POSIX ACLs -> RichACLs (NT-style). Not criticising Andreas here, people are asking for this. But Windows ACLs are a nightmare beyond human comprehension :-). In the "too complex to be usable" camp. > And what would native ACL support mean for Samba? RichACLs'll do it, but I feel sorry for the admins :-). Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
