[PATCH][WIP] Make vfs_acl_xattr use hash of the posix ACL

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sun Nov 11 22:05:02 MST 2012


On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 09:36 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 00:10 +0200, Christian Ambach wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > On 10/24/2012 01:45 PM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > 
> > > I've made some small changes, which are in fix-acls2.  What I need to do
> > > with you is hook up gpfs to the new non_posix_acls helper functions I've
> > > written.  (I decided against the change we discussed, to avoid needing
> > > to call stat at both layers).
> > >
> > > The blob you get from gpfs is the acl_as_blob argument.
> > >
> > > Anyway, we should probably do some of this interactively, let me know
> > > when you have time.
> > 
> > I was on vacation for the last two weeks. I'll try to catch you on IRC
> > early next week, until then I will already look at the code and see how
> > to fit the GPFS module (and others) to it.

Christian,

I would like to proceed with this work with you when you are ready, so
we can get the improved posix ACL handling into the tree.

Do you have any time to work on this with me this week, or should we
proceed without special handling of GPFS and come back to that later?

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org




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