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

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:33:24AM +0100, Christian Ambach wrote:
> On 12/27/2012 10:58 PM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> >I'm just wondering if we can pick this up again (perhaps in the new
> >year)?  We got past the ACL talloc issues, and I'm wondering if we can
> >finally move on to getting the new hash code into master.
> 
> Andrew and I have spent some time doing background work and we now have
> a set of patches that includes:
> 
> # adding the extra protection against SD invalidation by changes in the
> mapping code
> 
> # tests that prove that it works and gives the additional protection
> 
> # some updates to vfstest to make it possible to test out the new VFS
> operations
> 
> # adopt vfs_gpfs to the native blob logic as an example for other VFS
> modules
> 
> Patches are located here:
> http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=ambi/samba.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/fix-acls2
> 
> Feedback appreciated!

Just had a quick lookover (no time for a complete review at the
moment, sorry) and this looks like a really nice patchset which
will improve ACL handling considerably !

Great work, Andrew and Christian !

Cheers,

	Jeremy.