Re: [PATCH] overlayfs: ignore empty NFSv4 ACLs in ext4 upperdir

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 19:27, Goetz, Patrick G <pgoetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/1/19 10:57 PM, NeilBrown wrote:
> > Support some day support for nfs4 acls were added to ext4 (not a totally
> > ridiculous suggestion).  We would then want NFS to allow it's ACLs to be
> > copied up.
>
> Is there some reason why there hasn't been a greater effort to add NFSv4
> ACL support to the mainstream linux filesystems?  I have to support a
> hybrid linux/windows environment and not having these ACLs on ext4 is a
> daily headache for me.

The patches for implementing that have been rejected over and over
again, and nobody is working on them anymore.

Andreas