Re: ext3 nfs4acl implementation

Hi Bj=F6rn,

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 11:47, Bjoern Jacke wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> can you tell how work on the nfs4acl implementation is going on?

I will pick up the nfs4acl project again in a few weeks, after finishing wh=
at =

I'm currently still busy with.

> Do you want to release a library to access the nfs4 acls from programs
> without having to fiddle around with the system.nfs4acl EA directly (which
> is probably not very advisable ;-) ?

In my opinion the libacl library that implements the POSIX 1003.1e draft 17 =

interface wasn't all too successful, and so my current idea is to provide =

some library functions that convert between the text forms that nfs4acl =

understands and produces and the xattr representation. This should be =

relatively close to what nfs4acl currently uses. There are no useful =

standards in this area, so I don't think we need to be too formal with that.

Are you looking into nfs4acls for Samba? If so, can you give me a status =

update? Samba support would be really nice in the near future (say, within =

two months from now); I know that there is real business interest in this =

topic.

Thanks,
Andreas

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