| From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -V6 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability | Date | Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:48:18 +0100 |
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Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> The following set of patches implements VFS and ext4 changes needed to implement > a new acl model for linux. Rich ACLs are an implementation of NFSv4 ACLs, > extended by file masks to fit into the standard POSIX file permission model. > They are designed to work seamlessly locally as well as across the NFSv4 and > CIFS/SMB2 network file system protocols. > > A user-space utility for displaying and changing richacls is available at [4] > (a number of examples can be found at http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/examples.html). > > [4] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/acl/kvaneesh/richacl.git master > > To test richacl on ext4 use -o richacl mount option. This mount option may later be > dropped in favour of a feature flag. > > More details regarding richacl can be found at > http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/ > > Changes from v5: > a) rebase to v3.1-rc4-131-g9e79e3e > > NOTE: The kernel changes will be pushed to > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvaneesh/linux-richacl.git richacl > when kernel.org is back
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> for all patches generally where I haven't found anything bad.
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