Return-Path: Received: from elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.63]:38940 "EHLO elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750983AbcGMTjx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:39:53 -0400 From: "Frank Filz" To: "'Andreas Gruenbacher'" Cc: "'Jeff Layton'" , "'Alexander Viro'" , "'Christoph Hellwig'" , "'Theodore Ts'o'" , "'Andreas Dilger'" , "'J. Bruce Fields'" , "'Trond Myklebust'" , "'Anna Schumaker'" , "'Dave Chinner'" , "'linux-ext4'" , "'XFS Developers'" , "'LKML'" , "'linux-fsdevel'" , "'Linux NFS Mailing List'" , , "'Linux API'" References: <1467294433-3222-1-git-send-email-agruenba@redhat.com> <1467294433-3222-9-git-send-email-agruenba@redhat.com> <1467728537.3800.32.camel@redhat.com> <014101d1d6df$e059fd20$a10df760$@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: RE: [PATCH v23 08/22] richacl: Compute maximum file masks from an acl Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:38:50 -0700 Message-ID: <018b01d1dd3e$2f868170$8e938450$@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > > Hmm, but does that result in examining the whole ACL for most access > checks, at least for files where most of the accesses are by the owner, or a > member of a specific group (with perhaps a ton of special case users added > on the end)? > > I don't understand -- what does this algorithm have to do with access checks? Oh, sorry, misread the patch... got caught up looking at a tree and not seeing the forest... Frank --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus