> They will be left behind. The choice was to move > forward. Blindly, without looking what others are doing or needing? I'm really curious as to what kind of consideration was given to do the transition from one model to another? I know that there has been some work in the Linux world to do POSIX/NFSv4 mapping, was that possibility rejected for Solaris?
> At some point a decision has to be made to move > forward. > In the world of NFS, this has usually meant that > previous versions can be served and in this one case, > over the last 20 years, an inconvenient > incompatibility > has been created. Of course, in those last 20 years, > there hasn't been a standard ACL format so the issue > is really moot. The fact that there was, regrettably, no standard doesn't mean there was nothing. Like people were already using word processors before ODF became a standard, and ODF didn't suddenly become a worldwide success because it is a standard. I have those non-standard ACLs working right now on Linux systems, and they will stay for a while, whether I like it or not. I have the feeling that Sun didn't really try to convince others to follow their steps, and just assumed the standard would automatically attract them. I hope I'm wrong. Laurent This message posted from opensolaris.org
