On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Muntz, Daniel<Dan.Muntz@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 NFSv4 ACLs are similar to CIFS/NTFS ACLS. NFSv4 ACLs were originally based on CIFS/NTFS ACLs so it would be reasonable to export them from NTFS (although the SIDs (UUIDs) have to be mapped to local Linux UIDs - we have user space code that can do this in Samba). Note Samba server can map between the CIFS/NTFS and NFSv4 ACLs already and has for many years. JRA on the Samba team and Andreas have done some good presentations on the differences in ACL models, but other than storing the "mask" or equivalent - POSIX ACLs can be thought of as a subset of NFSv4/CIFS/NTFS ACLs -- Thanks, Steve -- 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
