Re: [PATCH v8 00/41] Richacls

[Steve French]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Oct 6, 2015, at 7:12 AM, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> The filesystem interface now is the same as for POSIX ACLs, used by a
>> dozen or so filesystems already.
>>
>>> I don't want to end up with a situration like Posix ACLs again where
>>> different file systems using different on disk formats again.
>>
>> Any file system could choose a different on-disk format than the one
>> that ext4 currently uses, but I don't see a reason why any should.
>> Apart from uid / gid mappings that is the same as the user-space xattr
>> format. Network file systems like NFSv4 and CIFS with their predefined
>> over-the-wire formats obviously are another story.
>
> And any disk filesystems that have their own non-POSIX ACLs, such as HFS, NTFS, ZFS would presumably also need to map the in-kernel Richacl format to their on-disk format.

Will be interesting to see whether in the long run can have some
common code in NTFS, CIFS/SMB3 (and even NFSv4.x) ACL parsing since
their formats are quite closely related



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Thanks,

Steve
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