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Re: [Article] Virtual Filesystem: Building a Linux Filesystem from

Måns Rullgård

2004-09-22, 9:21 pm

those who know me have no need of my name <not-a-real-address@usa.net> writes:

> in comp.unix.programmer i read:
>
>
> someone named root, most others cannot play. this is not the impediment it
> once was, but it can still be annoying.
>
>
> i see you didn't show how easy acl's are to use. they are feature-rich, so
> the language to manipulate them is far from the simplicity of chmod. oh,
> and they aren't standardized between systems, so what you learn on linux
> has little chance of applying on anything else -- hell, even between ext3,
> reisersfs and the other linux filesystem types there's plenty of variance.

And for yet another variation, go to AFS. At least the AFS ACLs are
the same everywhere.

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Måns Rullgård
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