On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:44:08 -0400, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
