linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6]

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Date:	Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:54:32 -0400
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Jeremy Allison <jra@...ba.org>
Cc:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	utz lehmann <lkml123@...4n2c.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Volker.Lendecke@...net.de, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	samba-technical@...ts.samba.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsde@...per.es
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make
 extended  file stats available [ver #6]

On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 06:05:01AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> We don't need to ape Windows in everything.
> The coming ACL disaster will show that (we will go from an ACL
> model that is slightly too complex to use, to one that is impossibly
> complex to use :-).

Care to elaborate?

And what would native ACL support mean for Samba?

--b.
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