[Samba] VFS ACL modules - question to developers

adrian.berlin adrian.berlin at o2.pl
Mon Dec 5 07:00:01 MST 2011


Hi Jeremy,

I'm going to check your patchs on Wednesday.

So I understand that ACL TDB are also limited by filesystem?

Cheers
/Adrian Berlin


Dnia 3 grudnia 2011 2:12 Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> napisał(a):

> 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.
> 


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