On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > 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. > Hi, As other people on this list have already said, the right implementation might not be through BTRFS. But IMHO if you are looking at extended ACLs beyond what is already provided by many linux filesystems, you could look at NFS4 ACLs, which have semantics which should fit Linux and Posix better than AFS ACLs. Also, AFS ACLs being per directory and not per file, would be less flexible than NFS4's. Regards Cláudio -- 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
