From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        agruen@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
        linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -V6 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:27:02 +0100
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J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:

> Probably the documentation belongs in man pages.  Which I think they've
> done, but alas the git repos (on kernel.org) aren't accesible right
> now....

There is also an in-kernel API that filesystems have to deal with if they want
to support richacls.  See the ext4 patches...  There should probably be one
document describing how to 'use' ACLs of all kinds from a filesystem internals
point of view somewhere under Documentation/filesystems/

David