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Jeremy Allison jeremy at valinux.com
Mon Mar 26 16:21:49 GMT 2001


"Mayers, Philip J" wrote:
> 
> I suggested this a *long* time ago (couple of years, before the VFS layer
> IIRC) and was shot down in flames, for ease-of-use, engineering and
> performance reasons. I'll be very interested to see if this works.

Yes, this was before we had tdb, vfs and a very easy way to store external
data. It'll be slower, and we definately don't want it to be the only
permission check due to security concerns. But thinking has changed
along these lines since it was first proposed :-) :-).

Cheers,

	Jeremy.

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