On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Really, I'm struggling to understand what the problem is with XFS > doing translation to it's own special xattr names for ACLs > underneath the posix layer. Right now, setting one of the SGI_ACL attributes leads to stale i_acl / i_default_acl fields and in the case of SGI_ACL_FILE, possibly to outdated permissions in i_mode. You would get different information from getfacl than what's stored on disk. > Yes, there's a caching issue when someone directly manipulates > the underlying xattr, "Directly manipulating" could be doing a setxattr of an attribute that was previously retrieved by getxattr, like restoring a backup. > but you need root to shoot yourself in the foot that way, and that is easily > solveable. What do you mean, it's easily solvable? Thanks, Andreas _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
