On Jun 4, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Laurent Blume wrote: > Not on Solaris 10. There is a Samba bug (5135) that prevents the > use of ACLs with Windows clients, too.
I was referring to Solaris' in-kernel CIFS implementation > And what about the Solaris 9 clients? Will they catch up, too? > Solaris compatibility and all that? They will be left behind. The choice was to move forward. > And, frankly, I spent a long while searching about NFSv4 and ACL, > and it doesn't seem that many people actually use it. I wonder how > they could, anyway. About those "other commercial NFSv4 servers", > which ones provide a back-end filesystem that can actually map them > to something else than POSIX ACLs? At some point a decision has to be made to move forward. In the world of NFS, this has usually meant that previous versions can be served and in this one case, over the last 20 years, an inconvenient incompatibility has been created. Of course, in those last 20 years, there hasn't been a standard ACL format so the issue is really moot. Spencer
