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

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:

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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 :-).