Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4)

From	Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4)
Date	2016-03-15 16:50 +0100
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:11:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 05:11:51PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > > while breaking a lot of assumptions,
> > 
> > The model is designed specifically to be compliant with the POSIX
> > permission model. What assumptions are you talking about?
> 
> People have long learned that we only have 'alloc' permissions.  Any
> model that mixes allow and deny ACE is a mistake.

People can also learn and change though :-). One of the
biggest complaints people deploying Samba on Linux have is the
incompatible ACL models.

Whilst I have sympathy with your intense dislike of the
Windows ACL model, this comes down to the core of "who
do we serve ?" IMHO we should serve the users (although
I must confess I'd look awful in a TRON suit :-).

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Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4) Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-03-11 15:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4) Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> - 2016-03-11 17:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4) Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 21:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4) Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> - 2016-03-12 00:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4) Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> - 2016-03-14 00:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4) Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> - 2016-03-14 05:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4) Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 08:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4) Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> - 2016-03-16 04:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4) Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 08:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4) Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> - 2016-03-15 16:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4) Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@SerNet.DE> - 2016-03-15 21:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4) Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> - 2016-03-16 04:30 +0100

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