Jiri B <ji...@devio.us> writes: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 08:53:20AM +0300, kasak wrote: > >> I think, if Theo says that we don't need acl, than we don't need acl. He >> knows better. Keeping things simple is very secure and this is good! >> I am very thankful to you for maintaining samba on OpenBSD! Undoubtedly , >> OpenBSD is now best of all OS, and fresh port of samba is what we really >> need! > > But missing extattr/xattr supports is not only about ACLs, extended filesystem > attributes are used also for other things. For example both Ceph FS and > glusterfs keep their metadata in extended attributes, thus without this you > cannot port such filesystems to OpenBSD :/
If the samba project can store extended attributes and ACLs "out of band" (in tdb databases) then surely other projects can do the same. Sadly, even with samba, this is not what people run in production on other OSes. We're alone here (well, afaik). -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
