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Re:WinBtrfs – A Windows driver for the next-generation Linux... by tinus_hn on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @06:45AM (#15182606)
The inheritable ACLs have to propagate (they can actually get out of sync). This is a design choice; either you check the inherited permissions at file opening or while changing the permissions or creating the file.

Chances are you will open the file more often than you will change ACLs so they chose the latter which makes sense.

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Re:WinBtrfs – A Windows driver for the next-generation Linux... by ComodoHacker on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @01:16PM (#15185341)
Interesting. Do you have any links to read about such implementation details?
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Re:WinBtrfs – A Windows driver for the next-generation Linux... by tinus_hn on Thursday September 07, 2017 @05:33PM (#15195951)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/320246/inherited-pe...

This article is about the problems it causes (note that in Vista they changed the design so when moving a subtree the system automatically propagates permissions, removing a major cause of desyncs)

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