On Mon,  7 Mar 2011 23:00:25 -0600
[email protected] wrote:

> From: Shirish Pargaonkar <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> Allow setting cifs_acl on the server.
> Pass on to the server the ACL blob generated by an application.
> cifs is just a pass-through, server decides whether to enforce/apply
> the ACL blob composed by an application.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <[email protected]>

Seems sane enough and is probably more useful than trying to map all of
this to POSIX acl's and modes. I wonder though...if you do this, then
the permissions and possibly ownership change. Do you need to
invalidate the metadata for the inode at that point?

-- 
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
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