From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752270Ab0JZEfu (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:35:50 -0400 Received: from e23smtp09.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.142]:44084 "EHLO e23smtp09.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751028Ab0JZEft (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:35:49 -0400 From: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" To: "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: sfrench@us.ibm.com, ffilz@us.ibm.com, agruen@suse.de, adilger@sun.com, sandeen@redhat.com, tytso@mit.edu, jlayton@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: [PATCH -V4 00/11] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability In-Reply-To: <20101025190901.GA13523@fieldses.org> References: <1285332494-12756-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20101012002409.GH16442@fieldses.org> <20101012153507.GC12752@fieldses.org> <20101025190901.GA13523@fieldses.org> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.3.1-90-g8071c5c (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:05:37 +0530 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:09:02 -0400, "J. Bruce Fields" wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:35:07AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:47:38PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote: > > > What we need in the first step is to get VFS changes reviewed.Once we > > > agree on the VFS changes done, then we can start looking at the changes > > > upto NFS richacl nfs support. When get that merged then we can start > > > having discussion on how local file system maintainers want to migrate > > > the existing file system with posixacl to richacl. > > > > OK. So, personally: I'm resigned to the idea that we want support for > > this ACL model. The vfs changes look OK to me (and wouldn't be changed > > by any comments I'd have on the more richacl-specific patches to > > follow). So that's an ACK from me on the first set of these patches, > > assuming it's OK with people to merge these things one step at a time. > > Is there any progress on this? > The next step would be to get Al Viro or Christoph to look at the proposed VFS changes and get an ACK on them. Meanwhile i can rebase the full series to the latest linux kernel. Apart from that is there any specific changes you would like to see as a part of richacl patch series. Would you like to see the full patchset posted to the list or should we go in steps as mentioned above ? -aneesh