From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262257AbVGFQzr (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 12:55:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262303AbVGFQvO (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 12:51:14 -0400 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:52647 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262257AbVGFMdE (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 08:33:04 -0400 Message-Id: <200507060251.j662p7OC005227@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> To: Hubert Chan cc: Chet Hosey , Kevin Bowen , Hans Reiser , Kyle Moffett , David Masover , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Lincoln Dale , Gregory Maxwell , Jeff Garzik , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ReiserFS List Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins In-Reply-To: Message from Hubert Chan of "Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:55:33 -0400." <87pstxynui.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.1; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 17) Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:51:07 -0400 From: Horst von Brand X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0b5 (inti.inf.utfsm.cl [200.1.21.155]); Wed, 06 Jul 2005 08:30:03 -0400 (CLT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hubert Chan wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:41:00 -0400, Chet Hosey said: > > Horst von Brand wrote: > >> And who says that a normal user isn't allowed to annotate each and > >> every file with its purpose or something else? > Explain how you currently allow users to annotate arbitrary files. By keeping annotations /outside/ the files. [...] > The situation is even better with file-as-dir. If the administrator > wants to allow users to edit the description metadata for the file foo, > the administrator can set the appropriate permissions for > foo/.../description, and keep foo read-only. So now root is responsible in exquisite detail for random other users being able to keep info about my files? [...] > Actually, you could use something like unionfs to allow users to keep > their own annotations without affecting everyone else's. Again, root has to mount that stuff for each and every user? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513