Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] ubifs: Initialize or update ACLs for inode

[Zhihao Cheng]

在 2024/3/22 19:57, Li Zetao 写道:
> Hi,
>
> On 2024/3/21 11:47, Zhihao Cheng wrote:
> > 在 2024/3/20 0:16, Li Zetao 写道:
> > > There are two scenarios where ACL needs to be updated, the first one
> > > is when creating the inode, and the second one is in the chmod process.
> > > When creating directories/files/device node/tmpfile, ACLs needs to be
> > > initialized, but symlink do not.Why not support symlink? It looks 
> > > like many filesystems(eg. ext4, f2fs, 
> > btrfs) support it, except xfs.
> Thanks for the reviews, but this is inconsistent with my understanding.
> I think most file systems in Linux do not support it, because most file 
> systems do not register the get/set functions of ACLs for symlink 
> operations. And the posix_acl_create() will determine that it is a 
> symlink type inode, and then skip the creation process. But except for 
> bcachefs, it may be to solve the problem of certain scenarios, so it 
> would be nice if anyone could explain it to us.

You are right, only bcachefs support acl for symlink.