linux-kernel - Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems

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Message-ID: <19705.1187197065@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:57:45 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Marc Perkel <mperkel@...oo.com>
Cc:	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>,
	Michael Tharp <gxti@...tiallystapled.com>,
	alan <alan@...eserver.org>,
	LKML Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:02:41 PDT, Marc Perkel said:

> Kyle, thinking further outside the box, files would no
> longer have owners or permissions. Nor would
> directories. People, groups, managers, and other
> objects with have permissions.

You gotta think *way* out of the box to come up with a system where a "file"
isn't an object that can have some sort of ACL or permissions on it.


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