[Samba] file sharing using native NFS4 ACLs on Linux

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 15 May 2024 13:02:24 +0200
mathias dufresne via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Le mer. 15 mai 2024 à 12:32, Rowland Penny via samba
> <samba at lists.samba.org> a écrit :
> 
> > On Wed, 15 May 2024 10:36:03 +0200
> > mathias dufresne via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > Is it possible on Linux systems to share through SMB managed by
> > > Samba some NFS4 mounted FS and that Samba is using NFS4 ACLs only?
> >
> > Re sharing an NFS filesystem by Samba isn't a good idea.
> >
> 
> Agreed. But I'm not necessarily the one who decides...
> 
> 
> >
> > >
> > > The point would be to not store anything on Samba regarding
> > > ACLs...
> >
> > And the point to that would be ???
> >
> > The point is to share twice the same space. Even though that does
> > not
> sound like a great idea to me, it is the same remark as previously
> written.
> 
> There are other options than NFS but the blocking point is still the
> lack of NFS4 ACLs support on Linux.
> 
> 
> > You might be able to do this on one of the BSDs, but not on Linux
> > and as I already mentioned, sharing an NFS filesystem via Samba
> > isn't a good idea.
> >
> 
> What's missing to get Samba on Linux systems to be able to fully use
> NFS4 ACLs?
> - some code in Samba
> - some improvements in NFS4 ACLs implementations (at least one)
> - a bit of both?

No, If I understand it right, you need to convince someone called Linus
to allow them into the Linux kernel, good luck with that ;-)

Rowland