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

[Dominik Kubla]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:12:02PM -0600, Spencer Shepler wrote:
> 
> AIX/NFS does have ACL support.  It relies on an RPC program that is
> different than Sun's solution; essentially a transfer of AIX's own 
> format/implementation.
> 

Hmm. I couldn't find anything about that in the docs of the systems
i have access to. Maybe it simply was not installed on those?

I will recheck.

> 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. :-)

I guess you will need both. Why? Because of the installed NFS v2/v3
base (especially Suns) and often you can not upgrade those systems but
you really would like to be able to use ACL's.

Dominik Kubla
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