nfs4acl?

[Etienne Goyer]

Hey Paul!

A long time ago, I looked at what it would take to enable NFS4 ACL in 
Ubuntu.  Not a lot much, basically:

1. Package nfs4-acl-tools from 
http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/ .  Should be fairly 
straightforward, but it might be too late as we are past feature freeze. 
  Maybe if we ask nicely we can get an exception and have it uploaded to 
universe.

2. Optionally, have the acl package (set/getfacl) patched to support 
NFS4 ACL.  As you may know already. NFS4 ACL are not quite compatible 
with the POSIX one, so this is slightly risky.  There is an IETF 
draft[1] that propose a mapping, and I believe this is what the UMich 
patch to the acl userland tools implements.


I would absolutely love to do the work above, except I am out of time 
for that :(   If someone take care of it, I will try and make time for 
testing, promised.

[1]: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-nfsv4-acl-mapping-03.txt


Etienne


Paul Elliott wrote:
> On 30/06/09 11:49, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>> Is it likely that nfs4acl will be included in the next release? It's  
>> about time to move over to newer stuff...
> 
> Our site is in the process of moving a lot of our file servers to NFS4
> and we would certainly be interested in NFS4 ACL support in Ubuntu.
> 
> I plan to have a look a the source supplied by Timo to see how it works
> for us. If it works fine, is it a requirement that the package go into
> Debian first or can we just go to Ubuntu to begin with?
> 
> --
> Paul Elliott, UNIX Systems Administrator
> Computing Service, University of York
> 


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Etienne Goyer
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