Support for NFS4 ACLs on Suns ZFS Filesystem

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Jan 19 17:45:48 GMT 2007


On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:23:50AM +0100, Ralf Aumüller wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I asked about NFS4 ACL support for ZFS under Solaris on the Samba
> mailing list and got the answer from Volker Lendecke that there
> will be no support in 3.0.24.
> (see http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2007-January/128478.html)
> 
> Are there any plans to support NFS4 ACLs on ZFS filesystems?

What userlevel API do these things use ? Are they mapped
into the POSIX ACL api ? This could be supported with a
VFS backend that does the mapping, but someone needs an
incentive to do this work (or someone can donate it).

Jeremy.


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