Current approaches to ACL handling

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 02:36:20PM -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> On 10/01/2012 02:27 PM, Scott Lovenberg wrote:
> :
> >While we're all playing this game, I'll chime in with performance of a
> >userland database versus in kernel structures and extra context
> >switching. :)
> 
> Hey, you get RichACLs into the kernel and we'll be happy to use 'em.  :)
> 
> Even if EA's in are in the file system, we still need to read them
> out and process them in userland.  I think there are a few small
> dragons to be dealt with there, particularly across a cluster.

As there are for the actual file data and normal attributes.  Yes, there
may well be bugs, but they're filesystem bugs....

--b.