On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 04:06:44PM -0500, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > 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. This has been stalled a while and it will be good to see it unstuck. Don't know if if it needs time on the official schedule but I'd look forward to discussing it in the hallway.... --b. -- 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
