Re: Patches for NFSv4 support

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:39:50PM +0100, Thomas Luzat wrote:
> Package: acl
> Version: 2.2.26-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> nfs-utils 1.0.7-1 supports NFSv4 now. To make the support more useful
> please consider applying the acl patch(es) from
> 
> http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/
> 
> Thanks!

Hi Andreas,

Got this request to merge these patches in today, but I'm unaware
of any discussion regarding them as yet.  Have you looked through
these at all?

>From a quick high-level sort of look, it seems like the NFS4 ACL is
alot more complex than the POSIX ACL, so they've (wisely) used a
separate attribute, libacl extensions and new tools - nfs4_getfacl
and nfs4_setfacl.

It seems the separate attribute is required, but perhaps the tools
could be merged to provide a more transparent user interface?  Could
do separate command line options, but it'd probably be better to
query for each known ACL attribute name, and deal with each ACL type
"on the fly" so to speak?  Hmm, setfacl would be tricky though, any
ideas?  Or does it look OK as is?  They're not really very complex
tools, so I suppose having new ones might be for the best?

cheers.

-- 
Nathan
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