linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v10 24/46] xfs: Add richacl support

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Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:39:15 +0200
From:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	Andreas Grünbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@...il.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
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	Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 24/46] xfs: Add richacl support

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 6:05 AM, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 03:51:15AM +0200, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
>> 2015-10-12 2:10 GMT+02:00 Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>:
>> > Also, I really dislike the API where passing a NULL acl means to
>> > "set this acl" actually means "remove the existing ACL". Why no
>> > ->remove_acl method called from the generic code?
>>
>> It's not uncommon, it saves inode operations and wiring-up code.
>
> I know it's common. All it does is put extra branches in the
> filesystem code to do this, because remove is a different operation
> to set. The API sucks, and we're not limited on inode operations,
> and the operator overloading makes the filesystem code unnecessarily
> complex as it has to detect when to branch out ot remove or not...

I've tried it out. The filesystem code could be simplified (see the
richacl-wip [*] branch until the next posting). Adding a
remove_richacl inode operation on top of that really doesn't help.

Thanks,
Andreas

[*] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agruen/linux-richacl.git
richacl-wip
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