2015-05-13 22:55 GMT+02:00 Jeremy Allison <jra@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hmm. Just realized we may be talking about different things :-). > > In SMB/Samba the clients can create a file with no ACL, and > the directory ACL is auto inherited. *That* we fake in > Samba by creating then updating. Yes, that's what I was trying to say in the commit message of this patch. Samba will have to continue doing that. > But in Windows there are the concept of "inherited" ACE > entries, which can come from parents of parents of parents > (etc.) objects. Fair enough, even if from the child's point of view, all inherited entries come from the direct parent no matter where the parent has gotten them from. > When a client modifies one of these on an > upper level directory, the server doesn't do the auto > updating that the vision of the file system might lead > you to expect - that updating is done by a tree walk > by the client. Good, then we're on the same page. Thanks, Andreas -- 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
