| From | "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -V6 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability | Date | Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:10:59 +0530 |
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On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:44:08 -0400, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 10:55:22PM +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. > > The posix acl mapping that samba and nfsd currently have to do is > painful for everyone and I'm delighted to get away from it. > > My main remaining worry (besides the fact that cifs/v4 acls are too > complicated--but what can we do about that?)--is about how exactly the > (acl, mask)->acl mapping is going to work for nfsd and samba.
I already have changes to nfsd that maps NFSv4 ACL to the richacl. You will find that in richaclv23 branch
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvaneesh/linux-richacl.git richaclv23
> > If we assume that filesystems are going to mostly use acls or mostly > mode bits, then maybe that part doesn't matter a whole lot. I don't > know. >
-aneesh
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