Re: A pass-through support for NFSv4 style ACL

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On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 09:42:59AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> I have no idea about the original flame war that ended RichACLs in
> additition to having no clear clue what RichACLs are supposed to
> achieve. My current knowledge extends to "Christoph didn't like them".

Christoph certainly doesn't like Rich ACLs, as do many other people.

But the deal block was that the patchset:

 - totally duplicated the VFS level ACL handling instead of having
   a common object for Posix and the new ACLs
 - did add even more mess to the already horrible xattr interface
   instead of adding syscalls.



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