Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from fieldses.org ([174.143.236.118]:38650 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754241Ab1JXJRY (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:17:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:17:16 -0400 From: "J. Bruce Fields" To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: agruen@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, dhowells@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -V8 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability Message-ID: <20111024091716.GA1109@fieldses.org> References: <1319391835-5829-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1319391835-5829-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > How do we push these changes to Linus tree ? Andrew, Viro, any comment > on how we can get this merged upstream ? Andrew, it sounds like you might be willing to shepherd these through? Let us know what you'd need. --b. On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:13:29PM +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://github.com/kvaneesh/richacl-tools.git master > > To test richacl on ext4 use tune2fs -O richacl to enable richacl feature and mount > the file system using -o acl mount option. > > More details regarding richacl can be found at > http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/ > > Changes from v7: > a) Update patches based on review comments. > b) Add acked-by: > c) Change the richacl xattr format based on review feedback. > > git repository With all the patches can be found at > git://github.com/kvaneesh/linux.git richacl > > IMHO the patches are ready to be merged upstream.