On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 05:17:16AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > How do we push these changes to Linus tree ? Andrew, Viro, any comment > > on how we can get this merged upstream ? > > Andrew, it sounds like you might be willing to shepherd these through? > Let us know what you'd need. It really has to through the VFS tree. And to be honest despite the repostings there's been exactly zero progress on getting there. Please as a first thing submit the various small cleanups indepent of the other changes. If you can't even those in there's no point in trying. Second do not repeat the mistakes of the old ACL code, that is don't do too much work inside the filesystems. Al, Linus and me spent a lot of working on pushing it into common code and it's not done. For any new ACL model I really want to see zero per-fs code except for callouts in chmod & co and actually setting the xattr vector to a genericly provided one. And please wire up all common filesystems to actually prove that point. I also really hate all the duplication - I want to see a really good reason why all this code needs to be duplicated. Just look at the mess done to check_acl and the ACL caching in the inode and any normal person would throw up. There is absolutely no reason to not implement Posix ACLs as a subset of the NFSv4 ACL (not actually a subset in the strict mathematical sense, but close enough). After all this techical work (which was brought up before) has been done you can resubmit it. And that point you'd better have very good and very lengthy rationale for why adding an utterly stupid ACL model is supposed to be a good idea. -- 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
