From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
To: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: POSIX ACL support for NFSV4 (using sideband protocol)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:09:37 +0200
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On Monday 05 October 2009 18:44:34 Steve French wrote:
> Recently I looked through NFSv4.1 spec, and it seems to address some
> ACL incompatibilities (with CIFS) by extending the NFSv4 ACL model.
> 
> Should we be aiming for an eventual interface that would work for NFSv4.1
> or limiting it to current NFSv4?

I think Automatic Inheritance [*] is important for current Windows clients:
without it it's basically impossible to manage the permissions of entire
directory trees without shooting yourself in the foot.

[*] http://www.nfsv4-editor.org/draft-25/draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-25.html#auto_inherit

> Any idea on the state of NFSv4.1 it seems to be stuck for almost a year?

Sorry, don't know.

Andreas
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