From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
To: "Stephen C . Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
Andreas Gruenbacher <ag@bestbits.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revised extended attributes interface
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 15:58:41 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011208155841.A56289@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011205143209.C44610@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <20011207202036.J2274@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011207202036.J2274@redhat.com>; from sct@redhat.com on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:20:36PM +0000
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:20:36PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
>
hi Stephen,
> This is looking OK as far as EAs go. However, there is still no
> mention of ACLs specifically, except an oblique reference to
> "system.posix_acl_access".
Yup - there's little mention of ACLs because they are only an
optional, higher-level consumer of the API, & so didn't seem
appropriate to document here.
We have implemented POSIX ACLs above this interface - there
is source to new versions of Andreas' user tools here:
http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/linux-2.4-xfs/cmd/acl2
These have been tested with XFS and seem to work fine, so we
are ready to transition over from our old implementation to
this new one.
In a way there's consensus wrt how to do POSIX ACLs on Linux
now, as both the ext2/ext3 and XFS ACL projects will be using
the same tools, libraries, etc. In terms of other ACL types,
I don't know of anyone actively working on any.
The existence of a POSIX ACL implementation using attributes
system.posix_acl_access and system.posix_acl_default doesn't
preclude other types of ACLs from being implemented (obviously
using different attributes) as well of course, if someone had
an itch to scratch.
cheers.
--
Nathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-08 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-05 3:32 [PATCH] Revised extended attributes interface Nathan Scott
2001-12-05 9:08 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-12-06 5:46 ` Nathan Scott
2001-12-06 3:05 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-06 5:41 ` Nathan Scott
2001-12-06 15:25 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-06 23:15 ` Nathan Scott
2001-12-07 1:45 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-07 2:03 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-07 3:51 ` Nathan Scott
2001-12-07 20:20 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-12-08 4:58 ` Nathan Scott [this message]
2001-12-08 20:17 ` Hans Reiser
2001-12-11 2:42 ` reiser4 (was Re: [PATCH] Revised extended attributes interface) Nathan Scott
2001-12-11 12:02 ` Hans Reiser
2001-12-11 19:23 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-12-11 20:14 ` reiser4 (was Re: [PATCH] Revised extended attributesinterface) curtis
2001-12-11 21:34 ` Hans Reiser
2001-12-11 23:04 ` curtis
2001-12-11 23:28 ` Hans Reiser
2001-12-11 23:46 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-12-12 1:00 ` curtis
2001-12-11 21:21 ` reiser4 (was Re: [PATCH] Revised extended attributes interface) Hans Reiser
2001-12-11 23:33 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-12-11 23:59 ` Hans Reiser
2001-12-12 2:16 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-12-12 12:02 ` Hans Reiser
2001-12-12 13:34 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-12-12 15:40 ` Hans Reiser
2001-12-13 1:43 ` Andrew Pimlott
2001-12-13 9:23 ` Hans Reiser
2001-12-13 10:36 ` User-manageable sub-ids proposals Romano Giannetti
2001-12-13 13:37 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2001-12-13 16:06 ` Romano Giannetti
2001-12-13 18:58 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2001-12-18 0:17 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-13 23:24 ` David Wagner
2001-12-21 21:28 ` Andreas Ferber
2001-12-13 15:27 ` reiser4 (was Re: [PATCH] Revised extended attributes interface) Andrew Pimlott
2001-12-13 20:47 ` Hans Reiser
2001-12-13 21:01 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-12-10 11:52 ` [PATCH] Revised extended attributes interface Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-12-10 15:00 ` Peter J. Braam
2001-12-10 15:56 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-12-10 16:00 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2001-12-10 16:15 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-12-10 19:01 ` John Stoffel
2001-12-11 1:22 ` Timothy Shimmin
2001-12-11 11:33 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-12-11 15:15 ` Implementing POSIX ACLs - was: " Anton Altaparmakov
2001-12-11 1:41 ` Nathan Scott
2001-12-11 13:47 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-12-11 18:23 ` Hans Reiser
2001-12-11 18:46 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-12-11 23:37 ` Implementing POSIX ACLs - was " Nathan Scott
2001-12-11 13:30 ` Implementing POSIX ACLs - was: " Anton Altaparmakov
2001-12-11 14:34 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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