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[nfsv4] [FYI] NFSv4 ACLs on Linux: Design Documentation

Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Wed, 06 September 2006 14:55 UTC

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From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
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I have the design documentation for the Linux implementation of NFSv4 ACLs 
reasonably complete now; it is available at:

  http://www.suse.de/~agruen/nfs4acl/
      draft-gruenbacher-nfsv4-acls-in-posix-00.html

The first part of the document discusses how NFSv4 ACLs relate to POSIX. The 
second part describes algorithms which can be used to implement NFSv4 ACLs in 
a POSIX compliant way.

This design is based on file masks as proposed in [1]. Independent of that, 
the algorithm to apply a file mode to an ACL can be used whether or not file 
masks are used.

The code at http://www.suse.de/~agruen/nfs4acl/ is a complete and functional 
implementation of this design.

I would like to encourage people to have a look at the design document as well 
as the implementation.


Regards,
Andreas


[1] A. Gruenbacher and J. Fields: NFSv4 file_masks Attribute,
    http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
      draft-gruenbacher-nfsv4-file-masks-00.txt

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Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Novell / SUSE Labs

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