On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:35:35AM -0500, Steve French wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:55 AM, J. Bruce Fields<bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 08:54:06AM -0500, Steve French wrote: > >> if someone were able to convince the linux-fsdevel community to change > >> fs/posix_acls.c > >> (or add an fs/cifs_acls.c) to handle NFSv4/CIFS/NTFS ACL evaluation, and add > >> support to store these richer ACLs on disk for the future (e.g. for > >> btrfs), that would be > >> great - but with no local file system in kernel which can store NFSv4 ACLs and > >> no code to evaluate these ACLs in the VFS and with a NACK from fsdevel when > > > > I don't remember that--do you have a pointer? > > Aneesh mentioned one strongly worded objection (I remember more resistance > from others too) > > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-fsdevel/2006/6/24/313526 Yes, Christoph's always been vehemently opposed. I share his distaste for NFSv4/NT ACLs, but I agree with Trond that a solid implementation with a demonstrated need from CIFS, NFSv4, NTFS, etc., would be likely to overcome such objections. --b. -- 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
