From: Jon Forrest Subject: Re: (ANSWER) Question About nfs3 vs. nfs4 Semantics On Sun 7310 Server Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:32:37 -0800 Message-ID: <4AF34475.4000906@berkeley.edu> References: <20091105195515.GA1989@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from smtp-out1.Berkeley.EDU ([128.32.61.106]:27812 "EHLO smtp-out1.berkeley.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758509AbZKEVuf (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:50:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091105195515.GA1989@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: J. Bruce Fields wrote: > I still don't understand quite what was happening: in the absence of > "noacl", does the client just always claim to support the posix acl > xattr's, but return an error when cp attempts to set them? I didn't monitor the wire so I can only guess. My guess is 'yes'. However, given that the client also falsely that it couldn't preserve permissions I'm not sure what's really going on. -- Jon Forrest Research Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 jlforrest-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org