Return-Path: Received: from fieldses.org ([174.143.236.118]:57668 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753134Ab1HBBJs (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2011 21:09:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 21:09:46 -0400 To: Robert Marcano Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NFSv4 / POSIX ACL mapping bug? Message-ID: <20110802010945.GB16305@fieldses.org> References: <4E2ED2A0.4030401@marcanoonline.com> <20110727154736.GB974@fieldses.org> <4E303A09.10906@marcanoonline.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4E303A09.10906@marcanoonline.com> From: "J. Bruce Fields" Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:47:13AM -0430, Robert Marcano wrote: > On 07/27/2011 11:17 AM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:13:44AM -0430, Robert Marcano wrote: > ... > >>Is this normal or a bug?, My interpretation is that even that the > >>mapping of the ACLs is not 100% perfect this simple example should > >>not be a problem. Is it impossible using NFS to create a shared > >>directory for a group of users? > > > >Without looking at your example carefully, it sounds like the same > >problem as discussed here: > > > > http://marc.info/?t=123739823200003&r=1&w=2 > > Thanks, exactly the same problem, current user umask getting in the > way of ACL inheritance, looks like the answers is that this is > currently not possible because the umask is applied client side and > the NFSv4 protocol does not help to send that info to the server. No > workaround available (mount option or something like that) I seem to recall there was a solution proposed in the above thread that Trond was OK with; if someone wants to read through it and implement that, I'm sure patches would be welcome.... --b.