default FILE SERVER change for EXISTING Samba4 installs (was Re: Is a 'flag day' OK for a move from ntvfs to s3fs by default?)

[Ondrej Valousek]

On 06/15/2012 10:59 AM, Andriy Syrovenko wrote:
> I get the following during provision of beta1 on FS that only supports
> NFSv4 ACL:
>
> get_nt_acl_no_snum: fset_nt_acl returned zero.
> ProvisioningError: Your filesystem or build does not support posix
> ACLs, s3fs is unworkable in this mode
>
> Regards,
> Andrey.
This is really driving me crazy:
- POSIX ACLs seems to me best supported among various Linuxes, despite the fact there is no official RFC covering them
- NFSv4 acls are richer, better but poorly supported
- everyone seems to wait for rich-ACL (which should cover them all) support which development has stalled

So now we are in a state of flux.... if one wants to use ACLs on linux, it is very hard to decide which one