On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 08:36:44AM -0500, Steve French wrote: > 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). On the server side, you'd actually have to map between SIDs and NFSv4 names (strings of the form user@domain). --b. > 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 -- 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
