Return-Path: Received: from e38.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.159]:55754 "EHLO e38.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752504Ab1IUHav (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:30:51 -0400 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" To: agruen@kernel.org, bfields@fieldses.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dhowells@redhat.com Cc: 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: <1315243548-18664-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1315243548-18664-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:00:43 +0530 Message-ID: <878vpi73oc.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, 5 Sep 2011 22:55:22 +0530, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" wrote: > Hi, > > The following set of patches implements VFS and ext4 changes needed to implement > a new acl model for linux. Rich ACLs are an implementation of NFSv4 ACLs, > extended by file masks to fit into the standard POSIX file permission model. > They are designed to work seamlessly locally as well as across the NFSv4 and > CIFS/SMB2 network file system protocols. > > A user-space utility for displaying and changing richacls is available at [4] > (a number of examples can be found at http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/examples.html). > > [4] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/acl/kvaneesh/richacl.git master > > To test richacl on ext4 use -o richacl mount option. This mount option may later be > dropped in favour of a feature flag. > > More details regarding richacl can be found at > http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/ > > Changes from v5: > a) rebase to v3.1-rc4-131-g9e79e3e > > NOTE: The kernel changes will be pushed to > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvaneesh/linux-richacl.git richacl > when kernel.org is back > I pushed the kernel changes to git://github.com/kvaneesh/linux.git richacl Userspace code can be found at git://github.com/kvaneesh/richacl-tools.git -aneesh