[Samba] VFS ACL modules - question to developers

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 09:55:48AM +0100, adrian.berlin wrote:
> 
> > That's a really interesting document. I'd like to work
> > on that with you to make Samba behave exactly how you
> > expect.
> 
> This is a very good idea :) How can I help you?

Keep reporting bugs and testing my patches for them :-).

> > I have a jumbo patch for 3.6.x which should fix the
> > issues you're having with READ_ATTRIBUTES/WRITE_ATTRIBUTES.
> 
> Where I can get this patch to test it?

It's attached to this bug:

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8556

as a 40-patchset attachment.

> > There are no limits in the acl_tdb code that would
> > cause it to behave as you describe. What you may
> > be seeing are limits in mapping the incoming ACL
> > down onto the underlying file system.
> > 
> > Do you have debug level 10 logs of this ?
> 
> 
> Unfortunately not, but I will check it again today with level 10 log and EXT4 and XFS filesystem.
> 
> 
> > What is your underlying file system ?
> 
> XFS

The limit you're running into is on the ACLs within
XFS, not within Samba.

Jeremy.