On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Pavel Machek [off-list ref] wrote:
Should there be file in Documentation/ explaining how this works?
There are plenty of comments in the code and in the patch descriptions
that describe how the code works. The user-space package has manual
pages that describe how to use richacls; this information would not be
accessible to users when put in Documentation/. Also, some background
information is available on http://www.bestbits.at/richacl/.
Thanks,
Andreas
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On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Pavel Machek [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Should there be file in Documentation/ explaining how this works?
There are plenty of comments in the code and in the patch descriptions
that describe how the code works. The user-space package has manual
pages that describe how to use richacls; this information would not be
accessible to users when put in Documentation/. Also, some background
information is available on http://www.bestbits.at/richacl/.
Are many distros planning on enabling this? I gather RH is...
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James Morris
[off-list ref]
On 2015-10-07 03:33, James Morris wrote:
On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
quoted
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Pavel Machek [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Should there be file in Documentation/ explaining how this works?
There are plenty of comments in the code and in the patch descriptions
that describe how the code works. The user-space package has manual
pages that describe how to use richacls; this information would not be
accessible to users when put in Documentation/. Also, some background
information is available on http://www.bestbits.at/richacl/.
Are many distros planning on enabling this? I gather RH is...
I think a better question is "Are many distros planning on supporting
this?". Most distros probably won't enable this immediately, and many
other than the enterprise ones are likely to put the choice on the
system administrator. I would expect that RHEL, OEL, and SLES (and by
extension, Fedora, CentOS, and OpenSuSE) are likely to enable it, and
Ubuntu might. Gentoo will likely take the same approach as it does with
xattrs and POSIX ACL's, namely that if you want them, you enable them
yourself. I would expect Arch to have support (probably within a week
or two of this being merged), but not enable them by default, and I'd
expect a similar policy from Debian.
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 9:33 AM, James Morris [off-list ref] wrote:
Are many distros planning on enabling this? I gather RH is...
It's a per-filesystem feature, so it's the admin's choice (if compiled
in). On ext4, you have to set the richacl feature flag to get Richacls
instead of POSIX ACLs.
Andreas