On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 18:18:16 -0500, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 11:04:49AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > This patch add helpers that can be used by the file system to map
> > posix acls to rich acl format. This enables the file system to
> > return rich acl mapping the posix acls stored on disk when the
> 
> You mean, to return a rich acl which is a mapped version of the posix
> acl stored on disk?

Yes


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> 
> > file system is enabled with rich acl format.
> 
> Then I assume if you modified the acl, the filesystem would replace
> the existing posix acl by a "rich acl"?
> 

Yes

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> The idea being to allow you to convert an existing posix-acl-using
> filesystem to rich acl's?  (But not the reverse.)
> 

Exactly. 

For ex:

/mnt# touch a
/mnt# getfacl a
# file: a
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rw-
group::r--
other::r--

/mnt# setfacl  -m u:guest:rw a
/mnt# getfacl a
# file: a
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rw-
user:guest:rw-
group::r--
mask::rw-
other::r--

# umount /mnt/
# tune2fs  -O richacl  /dev/vdc
# mount /dev/vdc /mnt  -o acl
# cd /mnt/
/mnt# getfacl  a
# file: a
# acl format: richacl
# owner: root
# group: root
flags:pP                        <----- 'P' indicate Posix mapped
    owner@:---------x-T--M--s::deny
    owner@:-r-w-a-----T--M--s::allow
     guest:---------x-T--M--s::deny
     guest:-r-w-a-----T--M--s::allow
    group@:-r---------T--M--s::allow
    group@:---w-a---x-T--M--s::deny
 everyone@:-r---------T--M--s::allow

/mnt# setrichacl  --modify guest:r::allow a
/mnt# getfacl  a
# file: a
# acl format: richacl
# owner: root
# group: root
flags:p                          <---- Posix mapped flag is dropped
    owner@:---------x-T--M--s::deny
    owner@:-r-w-a------------::allow
     guest:---------x-T--M--s::deny
     guest:-r----------------::allow
    group@:-r---------T--M--s::allow
    group@:---w-a---x-T--M--s::deny
 everyone@:-r---------T--M--s::allow
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