* AW: posix acl to nfs4 acl mapping - status?
@ 2014-09-26 21:37 Stefan Bauer
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From: Stefan Bauer @ 2014-09-26 21:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
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Von: Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@mindspring.com>
> I believe the implementation follows this document. I do know that several
> years ago, we had some significant ACL testing using AIX clients that exposed
> many issues in the translation.
>
> Unfortunately, the translation is always doomed to be imperfect, and is
> probably not suitable for backup-purposes. Any POSIX ACL that includes a mask
> will certainly be changed to lose that mask (with the CURRENT effect of the
> mask being applied permanently).
Even though the implementation might not be complete and flags would get lost, i would assume to get at least a different error message than Operation not supported during copy.
I already found a solution for my backup-problem (saving acls in an additional file).
Thanks.
Stefan
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