Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:21:51 -0400 | From | "J. Bruce Fields" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -V7 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability |
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 09:02:35PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > Hi, > > 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.
Except for two questions in replies to individual patches, these look good to me.
--b.
> > 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://github.com/kvaneesh/richacl-tools.git master > > To test richacl on ext4 use tune2fs -O richacl to enable richacl feature and mount > the file system using -o acl mount option. > > More details regarding richacl can be found at > http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/ > > Changes from v6: > a) Update patches based on review comments. > b) Add Acked-by: > c) rebase to 3.1-rc10 > > git repository With all the patches can be found at > git://github.com/kvaneesh/linux.git richacl > > IMHO the patches are ready to be merged upstream. How do we push these changes > to Linus tree ? Andrew, Viro, any comment on how we can get this merged upstream ? > > -aneesh > >
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