[Samba] Samba4 with Posix ACL's

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Apr 30 21:06:30 MDT 2012


On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:44:25PM +0100, Ben Metcalfe wrote:
> Would the following be workable:
> 
> Run Samba 3 binaries in one linux OpenVZ instance to serve files.
> Run Samba 4 binaries in another, separate OpenVZ instance as an AD domain
> controller.
> 
> ...all on the same physical machine?
> 
> http://wiki.openvz.org/

Yeah, that should work.

> Separate note: I'd really like to see transparent support of ZFS-linux as a
> file-store back-end.

What API's does ZFS-Linux have to access the ZFS ACLs ?

None, I'd bet :-(. Which unfortunately makes transparent
support quite hard. Plus there's the whole CDDL vs GPL
licensing thing...


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