Hi, The following set of patches implements VFS and ext4 changes needed to implement a new acl model for linux. Rich ACLs are an implementation of NFSv4 ACLs, extended by file masks to fit into the standard POSIX file permission model. They are designed to work seamlessly locally as well as across the NFSv4 and CIFS/SMB2 network file system protocols. A user-space utility for displaying and changing richacls is available at [4] (a number of examples can be found at http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/examples.html). [4] git://github.com/kvaneesh/richacl-tools.git master To test richacl on ext4 use tune2fs -O richacl to enable richacl feature and mount the file system using -o acl mount option. More details regarding richacl can be found at http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/ Changes from v7: a) Update patches based on review comments. b) Add acked-by: c) Change the richacl xattr format based on review feedback. git repository With all the patches can be found at git://github.com/kvaneesh/linux.git richacl IMHO the patches are ready to be merged upstream. How do we push these changes to Linus tree ? Andrew, Viro, any comment on how we can get this merged upstream ? -aneesh In-Reply-To: -- 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
