Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4)

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:02:13AM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Jeremy Allison <jra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 02:05:16PM -0600, Steve French wrote:
> >> Sounds like I need to quickly rework the SMB3 ACL helper functions
> >> for cifs.ko
> >>
> >> Also do you know where is the current version of the corresponding
> >> vfs_richacl for
> >> Samba which works with the current RichACL format?
> >
> > I have a patch for a new vfs_richacl somewhere. I remember
> > sending it to Andreas for testing...
> 
> Ah, the patch was for testing, not resting ... how could I get that mixed up.

:-).

> I've applied your patch to the latest master branch, made it compile
> again, and fixed a few obvious problems. The results I get with
> smbcacls look reasonable now.
> 
> The code is here:
>   https://github.com/andreas-gruenbacher/samba richacl
> 
> I've used the following smb.conf:
>   [richacl]
>   comment = Richacl directory
>   path = /mnt/ext4
>   vfs objects = richacl
>   writeable = yes
>   browseable = yes

Great ! Once richacls gets into the kernel I'll submit
this into the Samba master branch.

> Is there a particular reason why you didn't make vfs_richacl a
> dynamically loadable module?

Probably sheer lazyness :-).