Status of posix-ACL's

Status of posix-ACL's

[Jochen Dolze]

Hi,

i found at http://acl.bestbits.at the ACL-linux-project. Now i want to know,
if there is a plan to integrate posix-ACLs into the fs-part of the kernel,
e.g. into the VFS-Layer? Is there a general discussion about this anywhere?
What are the biggest problems? (i know that many userland-tools must be
changed for this).

Greetings

   Jochen Dolze

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Re: Status of posix-ACL's

[Albert D. Cahalan]

Jochen Dolze writes:

> i found at http://acl.bestbits.at the ACL-linux-project. Now i want to know,
> if there is a plan to integrate posix-ACLs into the fs-part of the kernel,
> e.g. into the VFS-Layer? Is there a general discussion about this anywhere?
> What are the biggest problems? (i know that many userland-tools must be
> changed for this).

I hope not. POSIX ACLs are crap. NFSv4 mostly follows NT.
Compatibility with NFSv4 and SMB (Samba's protocol) is important.

Re: Status of posix-ACL's

[Bernd Eckenfels]

In article <F1457AD86AB6D311A6F200105AD9FB0219E251@EPCNETIN> you wrote:
> What are the biggest problems? (i know that many userland-tools must be
> changed for this).

AFAIK there is no Support in User Land Programs required. You just have
additional tools for managing the ACLs . The main problem with ACLs are the
storage of the additional info in the file system. This is a hard job if you
want to have it for all/most file systems. Remy had a working Version for
ext2, but it never got very public.. dunno why.

NTs ACLs are somewhat messy cause they require too much scanning.

Greetings
Bernd