RE: [nfsv4] Re: [NFS] NFSv4 ACL and POSIX interaction / mask, draft-ietf-nfsv4-acls-00 not ready

> > Let me see if I understand.
> > 
> > A POSIX ACL client sees ALLOW bfields READ+WRITE
> 
> Not necessarily "POSIX ACL" clients, but clients that request the new
> mask attributes.  Such clients also understand that the relevant mask
> makes that ALLOW effectively the same as just an allow of READ.

   The hell comes from having to explain this on the phone
to mystified customers.  It took years for the phone to stop 
ringing after Netapp's first multiprotocol implementation.  
In fact, it still hasn't completely stopped, in spite of a
huge documentation and education effort.

   But it sounds like you're telling me an admin will
never be able to see different permissions on files depending
on what OS she happens to be looking at them with.  Is that
correct?

Thanks,

Alan

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Alan G. Yoder                                    agy@netapp.com
Technical Staff                           
Network Appliance, Inc.                            408-822-6919
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