On Tue, 2023-05-16 at 20:50 +0000, Ondrej Valousek wrote: > > Hi Christian, > > Would it be possible to patch kernel the way it accepts native (i.e no > conversion to Posix ACL) NFSv4 style ACLs for filesystems that can > support them? > I.E. OpenZFS, NTFS, could be also interesting for Microsofts WSL2 or > Samba right? > > I mean, I am not trying to push richacl again knowing they have been > rejected, but just NFS4 style Acls as they are so similar to Windows > ACLs. > Erm, except you kind of are if you want to do this. I don't see how this idea works unless you resurrect RichACLs or something like them. > The idea here would be that we could > - mount NTFS/ZFS filesystem and inspect ACLs using existing tools > (nfs4_getacl) > - share with NFSv4 in a pass through mode > - in Windows WSL2 we could inspect local filesystem ACLs using the > same tools > > Does it make any sense or it would require lot of changes to VFS > subsystem or its a nonsense altogether? > Eventually you have to actually enforce the ACL. Do NTFS/ZFS already have code to do this? If not then someone would need to write it. Also windows and nfs acls do have some differences, so you'll need a translation layer too. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
