[Samba] Solaris 11 ZFS - acl_xattr still needed ?

[Pacher Dragos]

Then POSIX ACLs are still the way to go for the moment, though ZFS ACL's
seems pretty robust.

Volker, may I ask what is the trend now: are people switching to ACEs now or
still stick with POSIX ?

Dragos

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Volker Lendecke
<Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de>wrote:

> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 02:12:02PM +0300, Pacher Dragos wrote:
> > Seems resonable, zfsacl stores the ACE's natively compared to acl_xattr
> > that makes
> > use of extended attributes.
> >
> > It seems that the big players (Oracle, IBM) made their own tools.
> >
> > Any idea of the strict mapping completeness among zfsacl and acl_xattr ?
>
> Closer than posix acls, but depending on your requirements
> still pretty bad for some aspects of ACLs. In particular
> inheritance based things are not covered properly, and chown
> operations have very different semantics.
>
> Volker
>
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