> How do we push these changes to Linus tree ? Andrew, Viro, any comment > on how we can get this merged upstream ? Andrew, it sounds like you might be willing to shepherd these through? Let us know what you'd need. --b. On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:13:29PM +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. > > A user-space utility for displaying and changing richacls is available at [4] > (a number of examples can be found at http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/examples.html). > > [4] git://github.com/kvaneesh/richacl-tools.git master > > To test richacl on ext4 use tune2fs -O richacl to enable richacl feature and mount > the file system using -o acl mount option. > > More details regarding richacl can be found at > http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/ > > Changes from v7: > a) Update patches based on review comments. > b) Add acked-by: > c) Change the richacl xattr format based on review feedback. > > git repository With all the patches can be found at > git://github.com/kvaneesh/linux.git richacl > > IMHO the patches are ready to be merged upstream. -- 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
