Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:01:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:01:06 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:18136 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:01:03 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Nicholas Wourms Subject: Re: What's left over. Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:08:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1036059364.2419.1.camel@aurora.localdomain> Reply-To: nwourms@netscape.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 130-127-121-177.generic.clemson.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036087571 15278 130.127.121.177 (31 Oct 2002 18:06:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:06:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1479 Lines: 29 Trever L. Adams wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 21:31, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> > ext2/ext3 ACLs and Extended Attributes >> >> I don't know why people still want ACL's. There were noises about them >> for samba, but I'v enot heard anything since. Are vendors using this? >> > > I am sure I don't count (not being a vendor), but Intermezzo offers > support for this (they are waiting on feature freeze to redo it to 2.5 > according to an email I have). I want this stuff. Yes, u+g+w is nice, > but good ACLs are even better. Please, if this is technically correct > in implementation, do put it in. > I agree, having them is far better then the standard u+g+w that's been around for ages. I think it gives the "finer" grain of control over your system that a lot of users may desire. Not to mention the fact that ACL's are well supported by the recently merged XFS. If I'm not mistaken, AFS uses them as well. I *really* don't see the overhead cost here in terms of compiled kernel size when they are turned off. As for the size of the source tarball, who cares? People should quit whining about the size of the sources and get over it! Storage is cheap and broadband is in widespread use. Cheers, Nicholas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/