linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v21 00/22] Richacls

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Date:	Mon, 23 May 2016 01:20:15 -0000
From:	"James Johnston" <johnstonj.public@...enest.com>
To:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-api@...r.kernel.org>, "'Jeremy Allison'" <jra@...ba.org>,
	"'Volker Lendecke'" <Volker.Lendecke@...net.de>,
	"'Andreas Gruenbacher'" <agruenba@...hat.com>,
	"'Christoph Hellwig'" <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v21 00/22] Richacls

> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 06:18:10AM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 12:02:33AM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > > What more can I do to finally get this merged?
> > 
> > While I am not the one to comment on kernel specifics, from a pure Samba
> > user space perspective let me say: We need this. NOW.
>
> +1 from me. This is something that many vendors need
> and have needed for a very long time. Getting this
> in will allow *large* amounts of existing storage to
> be migrated to Linux.

As a "mere" end-user of SAMBA, +1 from me also...  It's my understanding
that this patch set would help eliminate the need for hacks like
vfs_acl_xattr that store ACLs in extended attributes that only SAMBA
understands.  If the file system itself can respect the ACLs that seems
like a lot cleaner solution.

James