Re: POSIX acls over nfs4

[steve <steve@steve-ss.com>]

On 23/02/12 17:08, steve wrote:
> On 02/23/2012 04:42 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>>> First, if you want an ace on a directory to be inherited by files and
>>>> directories created under that directory, make sure you're setting
>>>> the f
>>>> and d flags (see nfs4_getfacl -H).
>>>>
>>>> Second, there's a umask problem: posix acl inheritance overrides the
>>>> umask, but nfs4 acl inheritance isn't doing that. (The client combines
>>>> the create mode and the umask and sets both together, there's no way
>>>> for
>>>> the server to even tell what the umask is.)
>>>>
>>>> (We should do something about this if we can: maybe modifying the
>>>> client
>>>> to scan the directory acl for any inheritable aces and leaving out the
>>>> umask if they're found? It has the obvious race, but I seem to recall
>>>> we live with that in the v3 case. Or maybe there's something more
>>>> clever, but this comes up every now and then and I can't remember a
>>>> better solution.)
>>>>

Hi everyone

This really is a show stopper for us.

Would it be possible to give users the choice of being able to disable 
nfs4 acls so we can fall back to POSIX or nt acls? Or at least until the 
nfs4 team have had time to consider the situation?

Mounting with -o nofacl in the hope that the POSIX acl set on the 
unmounted directory would take effect, seems to have no effect.

What I'm doing at the moment is scanning the unmounted directory every 
few seconds using 'find' and changing the files to g+rw:-(

Thanks,
Steve