Rich access control lists

Posted Oct 22, 2015 1:09 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Rich access control lists by fandingo
Parent article: Rich access control lists

> What's the insanity? If you don't want to express anything beyond POSIX ACLs, it's nothing more than a storing data in a different format.
And a translation layer. And significant additional overhead (xattrs are SLOW compared to the fastpath).

So no, it's definitely not something I'd want to ever see close to my systems.