Re: A pass-through support for NFSv4 style ACL

[Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 2023-05-16 at 20:50 +0000, Ondrej Valousek wrote:
> 
> Hi Christian,
> 
> Would it be possible to patch kernel the way it accepts native (i.e no
> conversion to Posix ACL) NFSv4 style ACLs for filesystems that can
> support them?
> I.E. OpenZFS, NTFS, could be also interesting for Microsofts WSL2  or
> Samba right?
> 
> I mean, I am not trying to push richacl again knowing they have been
> rejected, but just NFS4 style Acls as they are so similar to Windows
> ACLs.
> 

Erm, except you kind of are if you want to do this. I don't see how this
idea works unless you resurrect RichACLs or something like them.

> The idea here would be that we could
> - mount NTFS/ZFS filesystem and inspect ACLs using existing tools
> (nfs4_getacl)
> - share with NFSv4 in a pass through mode
> - in Windows WSL2 we could inspect local filesystem ACLs using the
> same tools
> 
> Does it make any sense or it would require lot of changes to VFS
> subsystem or its a nonsense altogether?
> 

Eventually you have to actually enforce the ACL. Do NTFS/ZFS already
have code to do this? If not then someone would need to write it.

Also windows and nfs acls do have some differences, so you'll need a
translation layer too.
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>