Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Gruenbacher <> | Date | Thu, 2 May 2019 19:44:07 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] overlayfs: ignore empty NFSv4 ACLs in ext4 upperdir |
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On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 19:27, Goetz, Patrick G <pgoetz@math.utexas.edu> wrote: > On 5/1/19 10:57 PM, NeilBrown wrote: > > Support some day support for nfs4 acls were added to ext4 (not a totally > > ridiculous suggestion). We would then want NFS to allow it's ACLs to be > > copied up. > > Is there some reason why there hasn't been a greater effort to add NFSv4 > ACL support to the mainstream linux filesystems? I have to support a > hybrid linux/windows environment and not having these ACLs on ext4 is a > daily headache for me.
The patches for implementing that have been rejected over and over again, and nobody is working on them anymore.
Andreas
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