On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Anyone sharing files over CIFS backed by ZFS is using ACLs, particularly > when there are only Windows clients. There are large number and some > very significant in size deployments.
If you're running the opensolaris in-kernel CIFS server, you avoid the POSIX compatibility layer and zfs does actually work in a pure ACL fashion. OTOH, under Solaris 10, I was unable to find a samba configuration that didn't result in some files being hit by a chmod and losing their ACL. > I doubt it is something people tend to talk about or publish blogs etc > on. That is probably the main reason you can't "find" them. It's not like I'm typing "People who use ZFS ACL's" into google and nothing pops up, I'm inquiring in various forums generally populated by Solaris using people, in which typically a "Hey, who uses foo?" post finds a fair number of respondents. Given the dearth of responses, I can only conclude their use is not very widespread. The most frequent response so far has been along the lines of "ACL's suck. I wish they weren't there" 8-/. So far it's been quite a struggle to deploy ACL's on an enterprise central file services platform with access via multiple protocols and have them actually be functional and reliable. I can see why the average consumer might give up. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
