Re: nfs4-acl-tools 0.3.5

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 12:41:23PM -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote:
> On 8/23/2018 7:38 AM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 
> > > Does something specifically need to be done individually for each
> > > file system, or if it supports the standard extended attribute does
> > > any file system (including an out of tree file system)
> > > automatically function?
> > 
> > Nothing special's required, it should be automatic.
> 
> So if, hypothetically, the NFSv4 server was enhanced to look for and
> understand the standard linux system.nfs4_acl extended attribute, any file
> system, whether in kernel or out of tree, would support exposing NFSv4 ACLs
> via NFS? Even though there's nothing ZFS specific about it, that general
> functionality would not be acceptable for inclusion in the mainstream
> kernel?

Hell no.  We're not going to support anything out of tree in general,
and not something that violates our licensing terms for that matter.