[NFS] Re: [Acl-Devel] NFS ACL support...

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Spencer Shepler wrote:

> [...]
> Personally, I think that NFSv4 is the way to go for support of ACLs
> and EAs for distributed filesystems.  However, you may choose to
> ignore this opinion since I am one of the authors of the NFSv4
> specification. :-)

Then maybe you want to help me with a question I have about NFSv4 :-)

When I last took a look at the spec I realized there's no one-to-one
mapping between NFSv4 ACLs and Posix ACLs: There's no representation for
the ACL_MASK ACL entry. In addition, semantics of NFS ACLs and Posix ACLs
differ. I would have expected that whatever sort of ACLs an OS implements
are made accessible via NFS; however NFS also defines ACL semantics.

Do you know what Solaris is doing about these problems?


Many thanks,
Adreas.

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