nfs4acl?

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Etienne Goyer wrote:

Forgot to reply to the latter part :)

>    http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/
>
>
> There, you can also find a patch to the standard POSIX ACL tools
> (set/getfacl) to do automatic translation of POSIX -> NFSv4 ACL.  Not
> sure if it would worth patching our acl package with it or if we should
> just stick to the implementation-specific nfs4-acl-tools.

The CITI folks discourage using the patch, as mentioned on the page. I 
wonder if it could be improved, since for instance on Solaris you can 
directly see (with the normal `ls`) if the files have ACL set or 
not... too bad it doesn't work on linux.

> I am fairly certain the kernel have all the right bits turned on by
> default to make NFSv4 ACL happen.  That being said, I have never tried
> myself, so this would need to be investigated beforehand to be
> completely sure.

I'm about to (finally) start writing my master's thesis, and the proposed 
subject is closely related to NFSv4/AD/mixed environments, so I'm pretty 
sure karmic/karmic+1 will rock in that respect ;)

-- 
Timo Aaltonen
Systems Specialist
IT Services, Helsinki University of Technology