From: Peter Astrand Subject: RE: [NFS] NFSv3 ACL status? Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:14:57 +0200 (CEST) Sender: acl-devel-bounces@bestbits.at Message-ID: References: <482A3FA0050D21419C269D13989C611302B07DC1@lavender-fe.eng.netapp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, acl-devel@bestbits.at Return-path: To: "Lever, Charles" In-Reply-To: <482A3FA0050D21419C269D13989C611302B07DC1@lavender-fe.eng.netapp.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: acl-devel-bounces@bestbits.at List-ID: > > believe RHEL=20 > > > 3.0 includes Solaris ACL support for both the NFS client=20 > > and server,=20 > > > for example, as an extra patch. stock 2.4 does not. > >=20 > > Now I'm confused. Is "Solaris ACL support" something=20 > > different than the generic ACL patches Andreas provides? >=20 > Sun created a side-band NFS-related protocol (like NLM or NSM) to allow > NFS clients to access and modify POSIX ACLs via NFSv3. it was never > standardized, so some implementations provide this support, and others Yeah, I know all this.=20 > ACLs as they are described in the POSIX standards. "Solaris ACL > support" means using the Sun-defined NFS side-band protocol to access > and modify POSIX ACLs via an NFS client. >=20 > Linux (in 2.4 kernels) does not provide support for accessing and > modifiying ACLs on the server via NFS. neither the client side nor the > server side support is there. there are some patches against 2.4 that > provide this support on both sides, and i believe they are part of ag's > ACL patch set. Can anyone confirm that the "RHEL 3.0 Solaris ACL support" is really AG's= =20 ACL patches? --=20 Peter =C5strand Chief Developer Cendio www.thinlinc.com Teknikringen 3 www.cendio.se 583 30 Link=F6ping Phone: +46-13-21 46 00 _______________________________________________ acl-devel mailing list acl-devel@bestbits.at http://acl.bestbits.at/mailman/listinfo/acl-devel