On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 04:06:44PM -0500, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to discuss the status and next steps for completing > richacl support (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richacls) in > the vfs, local file systems, nfs, cifs. > > Right now, we don't have kernel support for a file permission > model powerful enough to support both POSIX permissions and > NFSv4 / CIFS access control lists at the same time. As a result, > support for the NFSv4 and CIFS permission models is very limited, > and permission wise, Linux is neither a very good client nor > server to other systems. For example, the permission to only > append to a file or to take ownership of a file cannot be > represented. When files are copied across systems, file > permissions change or are lost. This should be improved. > > I've started working on this a long time ago but didn't have > enough time to complete it. More recently, Aneesh Kumar has > spent time on this topic (http://lwn.net/Articles/596517/) but > eventually also stopped working on it. Things have improved on > my side and I'll be able to work on this again now, though. > > Thanks, > Andreas Andreas, I would be very keen on seeing you complete this work, and am willing to actively test any code you may produce with Samba ! Thanks, Jeremy. -- 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
