Re: [PATCH -V6 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability

[Aneesh Kumar K.V]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:27:02 +0100, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Probably the documentation belongs in man pages.  Which I think they've
> > done, but alas the git repos (on kernel.org) aren't accesible right
> > now....
> 
> There is also an in-kernel API that filesystems have to deal with if they want
> to support richacls.  See the ext4 patches...  There should probably be one
> document describing how to 'use' ACLs of all kinds from a filesystem internals
> point of view somewhere under Documentation/filesystems/
> 

setattr callback should call richacl_chmod when called with ATTR_MODE
and we should have new xattr callbacks for "system.richacl" . Those are
the only two changes needed for file system.

-aneesh
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