RE: [NFS] NFSv3 ACL status?

> > believe RHEL 
> > > 3.0 includes Solaris ACL support for both the NFS client 
> > and server, 
> > > for example, as an extra patch.  stock 2.4 does not.
> > 
> > Now I'm confused. Is "Solaris ACL support" something 
> > different than the generic ACL patches Andreas provides?
> 
> Sun created a side-band NFS-related protocol (like NLM or NSM) to allow
> NFS clients to access and modify POSIX ACLs via NFSv3.  it was never
> standardized, so some implementations provide this support, and others

Yeah, I know all this. 


> ACLs as they are described in the POSIX standards.  "Solaris ACL
> support" means using the Sun-defined NFS side-band protocol to access
> and modify POSIX ACLs via an NFS client.
> 
> Linux (in 2.4 kernels) does not provide support for accessing and
> modifiying ACLs on the server via NFS.  neither the client side nor the
> server side support is there.  there are some patches against 2.4 that
> provide this support on both sides, and i believe they are part of ag's
> ACL patch set.

Can anyone confirm that the "RHEL 3.0 Solaris ACL support" is really AG's 
ACL patches?

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