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From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
To: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Cc: ffilzlnx@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
	nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, jra@samba.org
Subject: Re: POSIX ACL support for NFSV4 (using sideband protocol)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:09:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910051909.37910.agruen@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <524f69650910050944k9bd0a3ci7b728f13b2c8225b@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 05 October 2009 18:44:34 Steve French wrote:
> Recently I looked through NFSv4.1 spec, and it seems to address some
> ACL incompatibilities (with CIFS) by extending the NFSv4 ACL model.
> 
> Should we be aiming for an eventual interface that would work for NFSv4.1
> or limiting it to current NFSv4?

I think Automatic Inheritance [*] is important for current Windows clients:
without it it's basically impossible to manage the permissions of entire
directory trees without shooting yourself in the foot.

[*] http://www.nfsv4-editor.org/draft-25/draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-25.html#auto_inherit

> Any idea on the state of NFSv4.1 it seems to be stuck for almost a year?

Sorry, don't know.

Andreas
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-05 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-02 18:56 POSIX ACL support for NFSV4 (using sideband protocol) Steve French
2009-09-02 20:22 ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-02 20:53   ` Steve French
2009-09-03  6:20     ` Ondrej Valousek
2009-09-03  7:46       ` Muntz, Daniel
2009-09-03 10:41         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-09-03 13:36         ` Steve French
2009-09-03 13:54           ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-03 13:57             ` Steve French
2009-09-03 15:01         ` David P. Quigley
2009-09-03 13:54       ` Steve French
2009-09-03 13:55         ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-03 15:35           ` Steve French
     [not found]             ` <524f69650909030835s41e78436p4b67594cf91de639-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-03 16:08               ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-03 14:09         ` Trond Myklebust
2009-09-03 18:55           ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-09-03 14:16     ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-03 15:14       ` Steve French
2009-10-05 16:31   ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-10-05 16:44     ` Steve French
2009-10-05 17:09       ` Andreas Gruenbacher [this message]
2009-10-05 17:19         ` Steve French
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-09-02 19:06 Steve French
2009-09-02 12:24 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-09-02 16:42 ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-02 17:49   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-09-02 18:27     ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-03 19:09   ` Andreas Gruenbacher

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