Return-Path: Received: from mail-yx0-f184.google.com ([209.85.210.184]:34697 "EHLO mail-yx0-f184.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751647AbZICPfd (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:35:33 -0400 Received: by yxe14 with SMTP id 14so1297173yxe.21 for ; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:35:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090903135516.GB4566@fieldses.org> References: <524f69650909021156lf181c17uf800eba7c35a6f45@mail.gmail.com> <20090902202206.GJ17884@fieldses.org> <524f69650909021353o1e055cbema16495c57cb9909b@mail.gmail.com> <4A9F6027.9050807@s3group.cz> <524f69650909030654u7653d410kd5cde25ec223a87@mail.gmail.com> <20090903135516.GB4566@fieldses.org> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:35:35 -0500 Message-ID: <524f69650909030835s41e78436p4b67594cf91de639@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: POSIX ACL support for NFSV4 (using sideband protocol) From: Steve French To: "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: Ondrej Valousek , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, Trond Myklebust , ffilzlnx@linux.vnet.ibm.com, jra@samba.org, agruen@suse.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:55 AM, J. Bruce Fields 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 -- Thanks, Steve