From: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
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 12:19:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <524f69650910051019l49f09166v25f2288ddb30a92f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910051909.37910.agruen@suse.de>
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> wrote:
> 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.
Yes - that piece among the various NFSv41 ACL changes also
jumped out to me as I scanned the NFSv4.1 summary ... in part
because I was looking at some Samba mapping problems (CIFS to NFSv4
ACLs) recently. In any case, seems very useful (even without
any CIFS compatibility issues).
--
Thanks,
Steve
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-05 17:19 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
2009-10-05 17:19 ` Steve French [this message]
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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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