On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 04:33:14PM +0100, steve wrote: > On 02/23/2012 03:40 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:53:28PM +0100, steve wrote: > >>Hi Jeff > >>Thanks for the reply. I'm trying to make the files created in a > >>share take on group rw. > >> > >>The trouble is that I've already tried setting the acl's via > >>nfs4_setfacl on the mounted share too (please see details below). > >>The acl + appears on the unmounted share and behaves as expected > >>even when it is not mounted. The mounted share however ignores the > >>acl I've set. I've tried remounting but still no acl is effective. > >>My workaround is to scan the folder and change the files to group rw > >>every few seconds. > >Without looking at your details, apologies: > > > >First, if you want an ace on a directory to be inherited by files and > >directories created under that directory, make sure you're setting the f > >and d flags (see nfs4_getfacl -H). > > > >Second, there's a umask problem: posix acl inheritance overrides the > >umask, but nfs4 acl inheritance isn't doing that. (The client combines > >the create mode and the umask and sets both together, there's no way for > >the server to even tell what the umask is.) > > > >(We should do something about this if we can: maybe modifying the client > >to scan the directory acl for any inheritable aces and leaving out the > >umask if they're found? It has the obvious race, but I seem to recall > >we live with that in the v3 case. Or maybe there's something more > >clever, but this comes up every now and then and I can't remember a > >better solution.) > > > >--b. > Hi again > I have this: > nfs4_getfacl /mnt/CACTUS/dropbox/ > > A::OWNER@:rwaDxtTcCy > A::GROUP@:rwaDxtcy > A::EVERYONE@:tcy > A:fdi:OWNER@:rwaDxtTcCy > A:fdi:GROUP@:rwaDtcy > A:fdi:EVERYONE@:tcy > > but files are created: > steve6@hh3:/mnt/CACTUS/dropbox> touch h3 > ls -la > total 8 > drwxrws--- 2 root suseusers 4096 Feb 19 11:21 . > drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Feb 19 11:11 .. > -rw-rw---- 1 steve6 suseusers 0 Feb 19 11:13 h > -rw-r----- 1 steve6 suseusers 0 Feb 19 11:21 h3 > > where h is a file created on the unmounted share and h3 on the nfs4 > mounted share. IOW the file created does not have group rw. > Ahhgghh!! Right, so see the second point above: what's your umask? (output of the "umask" command.) --b. > > Can anyone see anything wrong? > > Thanks so much for your patience. > 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