Return-Path: Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:47191 "EHLO e7.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752020Ab1IMFHM (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:07:12 -0400 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" To: David Howells , "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, agruen@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -V6 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability In-Reply-To: <8331.1315866422@redhat.com> References: <20110912222306.GB17483@fieldses.org> <25175.1315572498@redhat.com> <1315243548-18664-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <26458.1315577016@redhat.com> <8331.1315866422@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:37:00 +0530 Message-ID: <87sjo19gjv.fsf@skywalker.in.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:27:02 +0100, David Howells wrote: > J. Bruce Fields 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/ > setattr callback should call richacl_chmod when called with ATTR_MODE and we should have new xattr callbacks for "system.richacl" . Those are the only two changes needed for file system. -aneesh