On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 06:03:55PM +0000, Sriram Patil wrote:
> Hi Neils,
> 
> Thanks for confirming this. I can take care of moving posix_acls and
> changing glusterfs build scripts. I am not very sure about the CI
> though. It would be great if someone can help me out on that.

I think Jiffin or others will be able to help you with setting up some
tests. It is probably fine to look into that once the code is in a
semi-ready state.

Niels


> 
> Thanks,
> Sriram
> 
> On 1/19/18, 4:17 PM, "Niels de Vos" <nde...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 09:45:52AM -0800, Frank Filz wrote:
>     > Yes, we could move it into common code. I wish we had been able to
>     > avoid having it in the first place since it’s an imperfect conversion,
>     > but we have it so…
>     
>     Moving it to common code seems like a good appraoch.
>     
>     > If we move it into common code, I would appreciate someone throwing a
>     > fairly complete set of ACL tests against it and make sure all bugs are
>     > out, or at least that our conversions match what is done by knfsd.
>     
>     Jiffin had quite a complete set of tests while he was working on the
>     conversion. We should probably add these to the CI.
>     
>     > Is there any requirement for POSIX ACLs for NFS v3? Linux knfsd does
>     > have a sideband protocol for POSIX ACLs for NFS v3 which we COULD
>     > implement if there was demand for it.
>     
>     I have seen requests for supporting ACLs in the Gluster/NFS (v3 only)
>     server. But those came at the time when NFSv4 was not much used yet. I
>     think there is no large demand for NFSv3 + ACLs, most users will be able
>     to use NFSv4 now.
>     
>     Niels
>     
>     
>     > 
>     > 
>     > 
>     > Frank
>     > 
>     > 
>     > 
>     > From: Sriram Patil [mailto:srir...@vmware.com]
>     > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 3:32 AM
>     > To: nfs-ganesha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>     > Cc: Kamal Charan <kcha...@vmware.com>; Sakthi Kumar <sakt...@vmware.com>
>     > Subject: [Nfs-ganesha-devel] [GlusterFS] NFsv4 to POSIX ACL conversion
>     > 
>     > 
>     > 
>     > Hi,
>     > 
>     > 
>     > 
>     > I see that there is NFSv4 ACLs to POSIX ACLs mapping code written in 
> GlusterFS FSAL. Since, this is pretty standard code and other FSAls may use 
> it instead of duplicating the same code every time, can we move the ACL 
> conversion code to a common place in Ganesha? The code is independent of the 
> other GlusterFS code.
>     > 
>     > 
>     > 
>     > Let me know your thoughts.
>     > 
>     > 
>     > 
>     > Thanks,
>     > 
>     > Sriram
>     > 
>     > 
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