Supporting SACLs using EAs and a VFS module?

[simo]

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 18:05 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:56:02AM -0500, simo wrote:
> > One thing we may want to do is to store this information in way
> > compatible to that of samba4, so that we can have a decente upgrade path
> > in future.
> 
> I'm not 100% convinced that putting everything into one blob
> is good. For speed reasons this is probably the right thing,
> but not for variability. For my taste this is too much of an
> all-or-nothing thing. For example there are systems out
> there now that do have a create time stamp. If we
> unconditionally put that into that NTFS Inode blob EA I
> could imagine turning individual features on and off becomes
> more difficult.

Why? You just need to ignore that on read, but makes for portability if
you just move the filesystem elsewhere either via backup, or NAS,
etc ...

Simo.

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