To: Marc Perkel <mperkel@yahoo.com>
Cc: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
       Michael Tharp <gxti@partiallystapled.com>, alan <alan@clueserver.org>,
       LKML Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:02:41 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:02:41 PDT, Marc Perkel said:

> 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.

You gotta think *way* out of the box to come up with a system where a "file"
isn't an object that can have some sort of ACL or permissions on it.


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