On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Etienne Goyer wrote: Forgot to reply to the latter part :)
> http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/ > > > There, you can also find a patch to the standard POSIX ACL tools > (set/getfacl) to do automatic translation of POSIX -> NFSv4 ACL. Not > sure if it would worth patching our acl package with it or if we should > just stick to the implementation-specific nfs4-acl-tools. The CITI folks discourage using the patch, as mentioned on the page. I wonder if it could be improved, since for instance on Solaris you can directly see (with the normal `ls`) if the files have ACL set or not... too bad it doesn't work on linux. > I am fairly certain the kernel have all the right bits turned on by > default to make NFSv4 ACL happen. That being said, I have never tried > myself, so this would need to be investigated beforehand to be > completely sure. I'm about to (finally) start writing my master's thesis, and the proposed subject is closely related to NFSv4/AD/mixed environments, so I'm pretty sure karmic/karmic+1 will rock in that respect ;) -- Timo Aaltonen Systems Specialist IT Services, Helsinki University of Technology -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
