cvs commit: www/en/projects/ideas ideas.xml

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> (from Thu, 12 Mar 2009  
10:55:38 +0000 (GMT)):

> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>
>> Quoting Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> (from Thu, 12 Mar 2009  
>> 10:01:01 +0000 (UTC)):
>>
>>> rwatson     2009-03-12 10:01:01 UTC
>>>
>>> FreeBSD doc repository
>>>
>>> Modified files:
>>>   en/projects/ideas    ideas.xml
>>> Log:
>>> Amazingly, trasz did the entire NFSv4 ACL idea in one summer.  Remove from
>>> the ideas list :-).
>>
>> Did I miss the integration into -current? If not, what's holding it back?
>
> It's a huge piece of work, so while he's pulled in some minor bits,  
> a lot remains left to review.  We plan to hold an NFSv4 ACL session  
> at BSDCan, although I hope that we will be able to get quite a bit  
> of it into the tree before then.  Rick Macklem also has patches to  
> expose Edward's NFSv4-semantic ACLs via his NFSv4 server code (and  
> possibly also the client side?).  Among other complex aspects to the  
> change, the ACL ABI for system calls is significantly changed, there  
> are significant VFS changes, and we need to review the merging of  
> POSIX.1e/NTFS/SMB/CIFS/NFSv4/Solaris/Apple ACLs and make sure we  
> ended up with a model that will satisfy application developers, etc.

A lot of interesting stuff in the answer to a simple question... I'm  
looking forward to see all this comming in.

Thanks,
Alexander.

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