From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david-FqsqvQoI3Ljby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -V1 00/22] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:54:52 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjj6auvv.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140427222019.GF15995@dastard>
Dave Chinner <david-FqsqvQoI3Ljby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 09:44:31PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> As per LSF/MM summit discussion I am reposting the richacl patchset for
>> upstream inclusion. The patchset includes minimal changes required to implement
>> a new acl model similar to NFSv4 ACL. The acl model selection is based on
>> file system feature flag.
>>
>> 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 [1]
>> (a number of examples can be found at http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/examples.html).
>>
>> [1] git://github.com/kvaneesh/richacl-tools.git master
>>
>> To test richacl on ext4, create the file sytem with richacl feature flag
>> (mkfs.ext4 -O richacl or tune2fs -O richacl). With richacl feature enabled
>> using mount option "acl" will switch to using richacl instead of posixacl.
>
> No mount options, please. The ACL configuration needs to be
> determined solely by the superblock feature bit - we cannot support
> filesystems with mixed ACL types, and that's what this mount option
> does.
For ext4 since acls are enabled by default we really don't need to
speciy -o acl in mount. What i meant by above is that using "acl/noacl" mount
option will now enabe/disable POSIX or RICHacl based on the superblock
feature bit.
>
>> More details regarding richacl can be found at
>> http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/
>>
>> Previous posting of the patchset can be found at:
>> http://mid.gmane.org/1319391835-5829-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org
>> "[PATCH -V8 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability"
>>
>> The complete patchset can also be found at:
>> https://github.com/kvaneesh/linux/commits/richacl-for-upstream
>
> Where are the tests? We need comprehensive coverage in xfstests so
> we can validate that it works the way it is supposed to and that we
> don't break it in future, and that all filesystems behave the same
> way....
>
https://github.com/kvaneesh/richacl-tools/tree/master/test
-aneesh
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-27 16:14 [PATCH -V1 00/22] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 01/22] vfs: Add generic IS_ACL() test for acl support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 03/22] vfs: Optimize out IS_RICHACL() if CONFIG_FS_RICHACL is not defined Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 04/22] vfs: check for directory early Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 05/22] vfs: Add new file and directory create permission flags Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-28 11:23 ` Jeff Layton
[not found] ` <20140428072301.123674d4-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-29 0:04 ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-01 15:16 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 06/22] vfs: Add delete child and delete self " Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-29 0:07 ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-01 15:18 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 07/22] vfs: Make the inode passed to inode_change_ok non-const Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 08/22] vfs: Add permission flags for setting file attributes Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-29 0:17 ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-01 15:20 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 09/22] vfs: Make acl_permission_check() work for richacls Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-29 0:20 ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-01 15:39 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 10/22] richacl: In-memory representation and helper functions Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-29 0:24 ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-01 15:42 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
[not found] ` <1398615293-22931-11-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-06 9:35 ` Kinglong Mee
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 11/22] richacl: Permission mapping functions Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 12/22] richacl: Compute maximum file masks from an acl Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 14/22] richacl: Permission check algorithm Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 15/22] richacl: Create-time inheritance Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 16/22] richacl: Check if an acl is equivalent to a file mode Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 17/22] richacl: Automatic Inheritance Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 18/22] richacl: xattr mapping functions Aneesh Kumar K.V
[not found] ` <1398615293-22931-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 02/22] vfs: Add IS_RICHACL() test for richacl support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 13/22] richacl: Update the file masks in chmod() Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 19/22] vfs: Cache richacl in struct inode Aneesh Kumar K.V
[not found] ` <1398615293-22931-20-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-29 0:52 ` Dave Chinner
2014-04-29 12:16 ` Matthew Wilcox
2014-05-01 15:45 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 22:20 ` [PATCH -V1 00/22] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability Dave Chinner
2014-04-28 5:24 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2014-04-28 23:58 ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-01 15:49 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 20/22] vfs: Add richacl permission check Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 21/22] ext4: Implement rich acl for ext4 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH -V1 22/22] ext4: Add Ext4 compat richacl feature flag Aneesh Kumar K.V
[not found] ` <1398615293-22931-23-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-28 21:31 ` Andreas Dilger
[not found] ` <88FB2DB7-126A-400E-9B44-19E99A553B2B-m1MBpc4rdrD3fQ9qLvQP4Q@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-01 15:48 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-01 17:52 ` Andreas Dilger
2014-04-28 4:39 ` [PATCH -V1 00/22] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20140428043909.GA26778-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-28 5:54 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
[not found] ` <87wqeaatj3.fsf-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-28 9:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-06 20:15 ` J. Bruce Fields
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