[ros-kernel] Re: XFS Filesystem?

[KJK::Hyperion <no...@li...>]

At 09.27 24/09/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>SGI's XFS filesystem is available as an Open-Source project (GPL) for
>Linux.  How difficult is it to port a Linux filesystem driver to
>ReactOS?
>
>This filesystem has journaling capabilities, and may be of benefit to
>many users.  I believe it has ACL support, as well.

You'd be disappointed, if you tried. Unix ACLs are very different from NT 
ACLs: they're just lists of uid + access bitmask pairs in string form. 
Their difference reflects the huge difference between the two security 
models. We'd need instead a file system with resource forks/alternate streams

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