Hi all, I am working towards providing RichACL support in Gluster. This is a crucial step towards multi-protocol support. Currently Andreas Gruenbacher is the driving force behind RichACL efforts in ext4 file-system and other file-systems. See his earlier mail for more details: http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2015-February/044008.html Niels created a Fedora repo for the RichACL supported kernel, tools and the richacl library. https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/devos/richacl/ My plan is to provide a new RichACL translator in gluster which will store, retrieve and enforce RichACL irrespective of whether the lower file-system supports RichACL or not. I will make use of librichacl developed by Andreas for managing and enforcing ACLs. One important point to note is that RichACL and POSIX ACL won't work together. The file-system can either support RichACL or POSIX ACL. Richacls share some design elements with POSIX ACLs, but they go beyond POSIX ACLs in several ways. Converting from POSIX ACLs to richacls is relatively easy, but converting back from richacls to POSIX ACLs is not possible without losing information. I have created a feature page for RichACL: http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/RichACL Please see my Gluster Summit slides for more details: http://www.slideshare.net/RajeshJoseph6/richacl-glusterfs Please let me know your comments or suggestions. Thanks & Regards, Rajesh _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
