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

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Message-ID: <46C36580.5030006@cfl.rr.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:43:44 -0400
From:	Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com>
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

Marc Perkel wrote:
> 
> Kyle - you are still missing the point. chmod goes
> away. File permissions goes away. Directories as you
> know them goes away. 

You are missing the point Marc... open()ing a file will have to perform 
a number of these pattern matches to decide if it is allowed or not... 
this would be a HUGE overhead.

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