Hi, The following set of patches implements 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. Since posting the patches the previous time [0], Andreas Gruenbacher and I have worked on cleaning up the code, splitting things up into smaller pieces, and adding more documentation. [0] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/17414 The patch set consists of three parts. The first set of patches, posted as a follow up, contains the Rich ACL model and Ext4 implementation. The second set [1] contains mapping of Rich ACL to NFSv4 ACL (how to apply file mask to access mask) and implementation of Richacl ACL for NFS server and client. The third set [2] contains POSIX ACL to Rich ACL mapping and its ext4 usage. [1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agruen/linux-2.6-richacl.git richacl-upstream [2] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agruen/linux-2.6-richacl.git richacl-fullset A user-space utility for displaying and changing richacls is available at [3] (a number of examples can be found at http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/examples.html). [3] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agruen/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 V1: 1) Split the patches into smaller patches 2) Added extensive documentation to the patches. -aneesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
