Re: [PATCH v8 00/41] Richacls

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Oct 06 2015 - 05:50:11 EST


On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 02:58:36PM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
> I think the point is that a new VFS feature that is easy to integrate in
> multiple filesystems should have support for those filesystems. A decade
> ago, just having ext* support would probably have been fine, but these days,
> XFS, BTRFS, and F2FS are used just as much (if not more) on production
> systems as ext4, and having support for them right from the start would
> significantly help with adoption of richacls.

That's one reason. The other is that actually wiring it up for more
than a single consumer shows its actually reasonable generic. I don't
want to end up with a situration like Posix ACLs again where different
file systems using different on disk formats again.
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