Hi there. A Debian user contributed a copy of what he says is a Red
Hat patch to support "acl" and "no_acl" options for NFS exports.
Is this patch OK?
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On Saturday December 4, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi there. A Debian user contributed a copy of what he says is a Red
> Hat patch to support "acl" and "no_acl" options for NFS exports.
>
> Is this patch OK?
Define "OK" ???
I must admit a personal bias. I find it very hard to get enthusiastic
about anything relating to ACLs. I think they are one of the worst
mis-features ever to be grafted on to the side of a filesystem.
I am *very* tempted to say "Don't use an old client if your server
supports ACLs", but there are probably some poor souls out there who
are forced to do so due to circumstances beyond their control......
This patch is OK as far as it goes. However it is completely useless
against a kernel.org kernel as support for NFSEXP_NOACL hasn't been
merged yet.
But I suspect it will be if anyone bothers to pester me about it .....
So I am OK with this patch going in to nfs-utils, providing the man
page make it clear that not all kernels support this functionality,
and will quietly accept but ignore the flag.
Anyone want to re-make the patch with a suitable change to the
manpage?
NeilBrown
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Neil Brown wrote:
>So I am OK with this patch going in to nfs-utils, providing the man
>page make it clear that not all kernels support this functionality,
>and will quietly accept but ignore the flag.
>
>Anyone want to re-make the patch with a suitable change to the
>manpage?
>
>
I'll add it to my todo list....
steved.
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Neil Brown wrote:
>So I am OK with this patch going in to nfs-utils, providing the man
>page make it clear that not all kernels support this functionality
I've done so.
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