From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V2 00/16]  New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:11:53 +0200
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On Tuesday 20 July 2010 11:31:07 Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote:
> We need to update ACL4_VALID_FLAGS to now consider ACL4_MASKED as a
> valid flag.  This is also needed for userspace.

Good point, I missed that.

> On a related note, should we move ACL4_MASKED and ACL4_POSIX_MAPPED to
> be the higher bits ? That would make sure we will be able to accomodate
> new flag value NFSv4 define.

That makes sense, except that ACL4_POSIX_MAPPED hasn't entered the scene in 
the patches posted here, and I'm still not convinced that we'll actually need 
it.

Thanks,
Andreas