On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Jeff Layton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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

owner/group will not change, only the ACL (DACL).

> invalidate the metadata for the inode at that point?
>
> --
> Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
>
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