> Improving ACL fabrication and making it do a better job of approximating > NFSv4 ACL, will still have the following problem: > > >> > >> - The user could retrieve the fabricated ACL on the client and attempt > >> to perform some operation only to be denied when the "real" ACL is > >> evaluated on the server.
This was my compelling reason for not doing my normal, I hate configuration options, please fix it so ACL fabrication works. IMO, it can't be reasonably fixed because ACL/ACE are different. That's something we/the ARC accepted in the ZFS and NFSv4 cases. Gary..