On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:46:09AM -0700, Muntz, Daniel wrote: > I've always thought of NFS as a means for making physical file systems > available across a network. NFS having its own ACLs doesn't fit this > model. E.g., "NFS ACLs" will never be integrated into NTFS. However, I > could imagine NFS ACLs solving the general problem if they were to form > a superset of the ACLs of exportable physical file systems, and the > mechanism for interpreting ACLs for a particular physical file system > could be encoded (or modularized) in such a way that NFS' evaluation of > ACL operations has the same results as the physical file system's > execution of the same ACL operations. You could have a POSIX ACL > module, NTFS ACL module, etc. There's a challenge for 4.2. > > ACLs could possibly be made completely opaque to NFS with a module-based > approach. > What would be the acl model on the client side ? Considering that POSIX ACL is looked at as the native acl model in Linux, I guess we should have the ability to modify the ACLs using POSIX ACL tools on the nfs client -aneesh -- 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
