From: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: NFS4 ACL <-> Posix ACL
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:09:34 +1100
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Alex Bremer wrote:
> [...]
>  Would the inheritance work if we
> used a fully NFS4-ACL compatible filesystem? Is there any for Linux?
>   

There are patches to make ext3 and XFS natively NFSv4 ACL aware.  The
XFS patches have been shipping in an SGI product for some months now.

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/nfs/nfs4acl/

I believe GPFS2 from IBM has native NFSv4 ACL support too.

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