On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 09:44:31PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > As per LSF/MM summit discussion I am reposting the richacl patchset for > upstream inclusion. The patchset includes minimal changes required to > implement > a new acl model similar to NFSv4 ACL. The acl model selection is based on > file system feature flag.
It'd also be nice to see the nfsd bits, as that (along with samba) is one of the main users. (And the richacl->NFSv4 acl mapping is tricky thanks to the mask bits.) --b. > > The following set of patches implements VFS and ext4 changes needed to > implement > a new acl model for linux. Rich ACLs are an implementation of NFSv4 ACLs, > extended by file masks to fit into the standard POSIX file permission model. > They are designed to work seamlessly locally as well as across the NFSv4 and > CIFS/SMB2 network file system protocols. > > A user-space utility for displaying and changing richacls is available at [1] > (a number of examples can be found at > http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/examples.html). > > [1] git://github.com/kvaneesh/richacl-tools.git master > > To test richacl on ext4, create the file sytem with richacl feature flag > (mkfs.ext4 -O richacl or tune2fs -O richacl). With richacl feature enabled > using mount option "acl" will switch to using richacl instead of posixacl. > > More details regarding richacl can be found at > http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/ > > Previous posting of the patchset can be found at: > http://mid.gmane.org/1319391835-5829-1-git-send-email-aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com > "[PATCH -V8 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability" > > The complete patchset can also be found at: > https://github.com/kvaneesh/linux/commits/richacl-for-upstream > > Since we are trying to get the changes merged upstream after a long time, I am > posting this as V1 again. I Also dropped the Acked-by tag from > David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com> and J. Bruce Fields <bfie...@redhat.com>. > Please let me know if I can add them back again. > > -aneesh > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
