From: "Ernesto A. Fernández" <ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hfsplus: drop ACL support
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 21:21:43 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180717002143.b6x25frc5idbd7sl@eaf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180716170748.5264352de39271b67cc54143@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 05:07:48PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 12:11:03 -0700 Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2018-07-14 at 16:06 -0300, Ernesto A. Fernández wrote:
> > > The HFS+ Access Control Lists have not worked at all for the past
> > > five
> > > years, and nobody seems to have noticed. Besides, POSIX draft ACLs
> > > are
> > > not compatible with MacOS. Drop the feature entirely.
> > >
> >
> > Bugs need to be fixed but not to drop. Otherwise, it needs to drop the
> > whole HFS+ support from the kernel.
>
> Yes, we could make it depend on BROKEN and hope that someone comes
> along and fixes it - there's little cost in carrying such a thing.
>
> Or maybe it can never work for some reason and should indeed be
> dropped, I don't know. I was interested in understanding the reasoning
> behind hch's ack, but I can't find it on linux-fs-devel. Help?
>
Sure, it's an old discussion:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=150813973409081&w=2
It's actually pretty easy to get it to work and I first sent patches to
do just that, but I was talked out of it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-17 0:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-14 19:06 [PATCH] hfsplus: drop ACL support Ernesto A. Fernández
2018-07-14 19:11 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2018-07-17 0:07 ` Andrew Morton
2018-07-17 0:21 ` Ernesto A. Fernández [this message]
2018-07-27 17:48 ` Ernesto A. Fernández
2018-07-17 13:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-17 18:29 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2018-07-17 18:34 ` Eric Biggers
2018-07-14 19:29 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-12-03 1:41 Ernesto A. Fernández
2017-12-03 20:59 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
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