[WIP] Remove confusing --use-xattrs option from samba-tool domain provision

Alexander Bokovoy ab at samba.org
Mon Sep 5 05:55:38 UTC 2016


On Mon, 05 Sep 2016, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 03:24:53PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > While at a high level the steps required to have Samba work on an NFSv4
> > ACL backed filesystem seem reasonable, no user or developer has found
> > it important enough to produce a patch. 
> 
> Can you explain what you mean with that statement?
> 
> Just to make sure, not to give a wrong impression: A Samba fileserver
> works much better on an NFSv4 ACL backed file system than on a Posix
> ACL one. GPFS users use it every day in large installations. I can't say
> how well the FreeBSD zfs/ufs NFSv4 ACL mapping is actually tested, but
> as the mapping is much more straight-forward than with Posix, I would
> not expect anything unsurmountable.
I think Andrew alludes to the point that no Samba AD user/developer took
enough effort to submit a patch that would allow samba-tool to deploy
Samba AD with vfs_zfsacl or vfs_gpfs modules.

I don't think this is a problem with implementation of those modules, it
is rather our problem with general lack of contributions to the Samba AD
code base from outside of the team.

-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy



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