Bug#290874: libacl1: libacl NFSv4 support

2010-02-02 Thread Roger Leigh 
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:17:41AM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> 
> - "Roger Leigh"  wrote:
> 
> > Package: libacl1
> > Version: 2.2.47-2
> > Followup-For: Bug #290874
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Has any further progress been made on merging NFSv4 ACL support into
> > libacl?
> 
> I've seen no further discussion of this anywhere, incl. on the acl
> mailing list... so AFAIK the answer is "no progress".

Could you possibly bring this back up with upstream?

NFSv4 ACLs are supported natively by the BSD and MacOS equivalents
of libacl.  The patches exist for Linux, they just haven't been
applied, and it's been several years of waiting now.

Now we have NFSv4 and other filesystems supporting NFSv4 ACLs
(ZFS, btrfs), as well as other protocols implementing the NFSv4 ACL
semantics, we desperately need support for them on Linux systems.
Additionally, more commonly-used filesystems such as ext3 and ext4
are gaining NFSv4 ACL support, and again we can't use them without
libacl support.


Many thanks,
Roger

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Bug#290874: libacl1: libacl NFSv4 support

2009-09-22 Thread Nathan Scott 

- "Roger Leigh"  wrote:

> Package: libacl1
> Version: 2.2.47-2
> Followup-For: Bug #290874
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Has any further progress been made on merging NFSv4 ACL support into
> libacl?

I've seen no further discussion of this anywhere, incl. on the acl
mailing list... so AFAIK the answer is "no progress".

cheers.

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Nathan



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Bug#290874: libacl1: libacl NFSv4 support

2009-09-22 Thread Roger Leigh 
Package: libacl1
Version: 2.2.47-2
Followup-For: Bug #290874

Hi,

Has any further progress been made on merging NFSv4 ACL support into
libacl?

Nowadays, the Solaris acl interface supports both POSIX.1e draft and
NFSv4 ACLs.  It would be great to have this support on Linux as well.

Note that the underlying filesystem need not support NFSv4 ACLs natively,
since it is possible to map NFSv4 to POSIX and back, since NFSv4 ACLs
are a superset of the POSIX draft facilities.

I'm currently implementing a protocol which requires NFSv4 support, and
it would be preferable to have this support in libacl rather than having
to redundantly implement the NFSv4<->POSIX draft mapping redundantly.


Regards,
Roger

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