On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 05:54:20PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > This patch series implement POSIX ACL support for NFSV4 clients > using sideband protocol. What motivates this? Who exactly wants this and why? What would be the advantages compared to other options, such as: - native v4 support in filesystems, or - improved client-side acl tools that provided a user interface for v4 acls closer to that for v3 acls, or - a v4.x extension to add support to the main protocol? Is there interest in implementing this on any OS other than linux, or would this be a linux-only extension for the forseeable future? What sideband protocol exactly? If it's exactly the same protocol as the one used with v3, there must be some slight mismatches: e.g. v4 filehandles are allowed to be longer. How do you deal with these? --b. > The ACL support can be disabled/enabled > using -o noacl/-o acl mount option. The feature enables to > view and modify POSIX acls from NFSv4 client. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
