Hi Josef, Thanks, I will take it to linux-fsdevel. sri On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 09:50:42AM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I'm curious if there is any plans to add extended acls ala AFS? The >> reason I ask is that it seems in Linux we don't seem have moved off of >> POSIX style acls and I think there is definitely at least from my >> perspective that having a richer set of acl would be needed. For >> instance, we would need acls to deal with controlled countries if we >> are sharing data with them etc. It is a big shame that there is no >> RFC for extended ACLs. >> >> Also, I would like to help out with development, I'm a newbie as far >> as kernel level hacking goes. If there is a place I can go that I can >> start off small that would be lovely. >> > > Extending ACLs beyond POSIX ACLs is a more generic topic that should probably be > discussed elsewhere, perhaps linux-fsdevel. Its not going to do much good to > implement yet another extended ACL implementation in BTRFS if no other Linux fs > has the ability to use the same feature, so figuring out the details of > extending ACLs should be done before doing them in btrfs. Thanks, > > Josef > -- -- Sriram Ramkrishna (sriram.ramkrishna_@@_@.gmail.com (remove _@@_) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
