On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Lord Isildur wrote:

> Since the talk is of ACLs specifically in FFS, why not copy the FFS
> support and fork off an ACL-ified FFS and keep it _separate_ from the
> plain FFS code. Think it through so that an ACL'ed FFS filesystem can be
> mounted by a kernel that does not support the ACLs.
> That's my .02 on it.

	Any such filesystem should be able to share the vast majority of
	FFS code, probably even down to the point of 'everything, just
	with ifdefs'.

	Hmm - why is ACL support any more 'unhealthy' than say quota
	support with options QUOTA?

	Another option might be a 'metadata' filesystem layer that could
	be mounted over any other filesystem to give ACL, MacOS 'resource
	forks' and anything else required. Keeping things in sync if
	anything ever modifies the lower filesystem without going through
	the metadata layer would be a nightmare though. Ick.

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