Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760700AbXHOQCx (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:02:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755375AbXHOQCn (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:02:43 -0400 Received: from web52501.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.48.184]:31294 "HELO web52501.mail.re2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755260AbXHOQCm (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:02:42 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=tccoluM9r2XOcoWZl9rhznHz6g7yCqNqpjAz9tDysNfBLplqNReH88ekrv1kWi0IadWJhCdsfn/e+4LigDzJacbOLfbeedlddrl4sl0RTWhhGKJYYDdwpg8zPytqs9W4d0bR2zMb2b3Pnol/9Q1mUSnlFxW2TT4rn21hflMaIqw=; X-YMail-OSG: ZA3jUF8VM1kW9837TibI..d0HtjM_OChILqhpRLHAcfkhQatEZWf3Mx98sFPnfd_Og-- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:02:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Marc Perkel Subject: Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems To: Kyle Moffett , Michael Tharp Cc: alan , Marc Perkel , LKML Kernel , Lennart Sorensen In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <16329.19717.qm@web52501.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1211 Lines: 42 --- Kyle Moffett wrote: > > ## Note: file owner and group are kmoffett > u::rw- > g::rw- > u:lsorens:rw- > u:mtharp:rw- > u:mperkel:rw- > g:randomcvsdudes:r- > default:u::rw- > default:g::rw- > default:u:lsorens > default:u:mtharp:rw- > default:u:mperkel:rw- > default:g:randomcvsdudes:r- Kyle, thinking further outside the box, files would no longer have owners or permissions. Nor would directories. People, groups, managers, and other objects with have permissions. One might tag a file with the object that created it so you could implement "self" rights which might be use to replace the concept of /tmp directories. Marc Perkel Junk Email Filter dot com http://www.junkemailfilter.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz - 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/