[PATCH] Fix for XDR Backend of NFS4ACL_XATTR module to get it working with NFS4.0 ACL Spec

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sat Aug 25 04:15:33 UTC 2018


On Fri, 2018-08-24 at 09:24 -0700, Jeremy Allison via samba-technical
wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 11:35:47AM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > 
> > Stepping back a moment, is there really any real-world users that are
> > not going via different APIs for things like GPFS?
> 
> Yes, I think so. This is from an OEM that is re-exporting
> NFSv4 shares via Samba to SMB2 I think, so they need our
> manipulation of the EA's to be identical to the NFSv4
> server.

Sure, but isn't that what this patch is going to, rather than what we
had?  Given the history of the format via source4 and tridge it would
be very good luck if the original NDR format fully worked, even if it
was based on some external patches with that intent.

Andrew Bartlett

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