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

Simo simo at samba.org
Mon Sep 5 18:52:57 UTC 2016


On Mon, 2016-09-05 at 10:05 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 09:00:23AM +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 09:35:32 +0200
> > Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I did a little more digging and I think all that is really
> > > > required
> > > > is: Add a switch to the provision command, something like
> > > > '--use-zfs' if this is set, don't do the simple acl check.
> > > > when creating smb.conf add the zfsacl lines
> > > > and hopefully this will do the job, but there will probably be
> > > > other
> > > > things to do, only time will tell.
> > > 
> > > maybe a generic --additional-sysvol-vfs-modules=zfsacl option
> > > would be
> > > better, that way it's not limited to zfs.
> > > 
> > > metze
> > > 
> > 
> > Confused now, do you mean 'zfsacl' can be used with file systems
> > other than ZFS ? if so, why is it called 'zfsacl' ?
> > 
> > Or do you mean '--additional-sysvol-vfs-modules=X' , where 'X' is a
> > vfs
> > module ? If you do mean this, then I do not agree, nobody will want
> > to
> > type that. How about 'use-vfs=X'.
> 
> Let's have both :-). How about a '--additional-sysvol-vfs-modules=X'
> but a '--use-zfs' which maps into '--additional-sysvol-vfs-
> modules=zfsacl'.
> 
> Rowland is right in that no one will understand or want to type that,
> and metze is right in that making it more generic is flexible.
> 
> But let's be honest, zfs is a widely used mapping and making it easy
> to use would be good for Samba4-AD adoption.

Should probably be --zfs-sysvol, as sysvol is the only thing you
require to have ACLs, and allows people to avoid issues if other
filesystems are not using zfs.



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