Current approaches to ACL handling

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 03:57:09PM -0400, Scott Lovenberg wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Christopher R. Hertel <crh at ubiqx.mn.org> 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.
> >
> >
> > Chris -)-----
> 
> In all seriousness, is anyone working on adding RichACLs to the kernel?

For now, we still need a vict--err, I mean--volunteer to finish them
off.

--b.