On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 05:14:34AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > Does it really make sense to use a string here just to pick between the > > > three choices OWNER@, GROUP@, and EVERYONE@? Why not just another small > > > integer? Is the goal to expand this somehow eventually? > > > > I guess Andreas wanted the disk layout to be able to store user@domain > > format if needed. > > Is that likely? For that to be useful, tasks would need to be able to > run as user@domain strings. And we'd probably want owners and groups to > also be user@domain strings. > > The container people seem to eventually want to add some kind of > namespace identifier everywhere: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=131836778427871&w=2 > > in which case I guess we'd likely end up with (uid, user namespace id) > instead of user@domain? Storing strings is an extremly stupid idea. The only thing that would make sense would be storing a windows-style 128-bit GUID. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
