Samba scalability?

[Shawn Wright]

On 21 Dec 2000, at 13:20, Cole, Timothy D. wrote: 

> > > Shawn Wright wrote:
> > > > 1. Lack of ACL support
> > >
> > > This is a big issue for us too.  Without full ACLs per file, we
> > > simply cannot replace certain NT systems, and I haven't seen much
> > > for Linux ACLs yet.  Of course, this is a Linux shortcoming, not
> > > a Samba issue.
> > 
> > ACL support will be in Samba 2.2.  See
> > http://www.samba.org/samba/development.html for a general roadmap of
> > releases.
> > 
> 	Note that Samba's is still (more or less necessarily) limited by
> what the underlying OS can do ACL-wise -- there are some NT ACL features
> that no Unix implements.

I understand the OS must support ACLs in order to have any 
hope of emulating NT ACLs, so I guess this brings up the next 
question: which OSes support ACLs, perferably open source? I 
know Solaris does, and it is now free (or is it?), but I'd prefer to 
stick with open source if possible. 


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Shawn Wright
Computer Systems Manager
Shawnigan Lake School
http://www.sls.bc.ca
swright at sls.bc.ca