OpenAFS implementation in Samba 4

[Michael Adam]

kstan wrote:
> I know that AFS is a high end file sharing file system. It support all
> common OS we found at market. It's ACL support 7 type of file permission
> inteed of standard rwx.
> 
> I wonder samba development team realize about this technology or not.

In Samba3, there is the afsacl vfs module (see source/modules/vfs_afsacl.c).
It can be used to support AFS ACLs on shares residing on AFS file systems.

> Probably, using this technology samba can reduce the gap between samba
> and windows file sharing capablity(Or even better).
> 
> Hope this help.

It only helps if there is AFS underlying a share.
Otherwise it does not. :-)

If we don't care about other users of the file system, then we can
(or could) do even better than AFS and store full windows ACLs
in a separate database or extended attributes.

Cheers - Michael

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