Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936403AbXHOUnl (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:43:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758313AbXHOUna (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:43:30 -0400 Received: from iriserv.iradimed.com ([72.242.190.170]:6211 "EHLO iradimed.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753262AbXHOUn3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:43:29 -0400 Message-ID: <46C36580.5030006@cfl.rr.com> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:43:44 -0400 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Perkel CC: Kyle Moffett , Michael Tharp , alan , LKML Kernel , Lennart Sorensen Subject: Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems References: <633206.92836.qm@web52512.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <633206.92836.qm@web52512.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Aug 2007 20:43:44.0222 (UTC) FILETIME=[F88C1FE0:01C7DF7C] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.5.0.1243-5.0.1021-15364.001 X-TM-AS-Result: No--8.466900-5.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: No X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 576 Lines: 15 Marc Perkel wrote: > > Kyle - you are still missing the point. chmod goes > away. File permissions goes away. Directories as you > know them goes away. You are missing the point Marc... open()ing a file will have to perform a number of these pattern matches to decide if it is allowed or not... this would be a HUGE overhead. - 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/