Following reply re Unix ACLs came directly to me from NetApp:
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There is going to be unified ACL support when NFSv4 finally comes out. By this, all OS will be able to support ACL over NFS, if they speak version 4.
Go http://www.ietf.org and try and find out more if you choose.
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Asked for clarification whether it necessarily follows that when NFSv4 is adopted and the various Unices come out with standard ACLs that ONTAP will preserve those ACLs when backing up via CIFS. Will post reply when received.
Joe
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-----Original Message----- From: kevin graham [mailto:kgraham@dotnetdotcom.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 3:08 PM To: Joe Luchtenberg Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: One more netbackup question...
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Joe Luchtenberg wrote:
Previously ONTAP did not support Unix ACLs, because of their diverse implementations. However, I thought newer versions of NFS
were supposed
to address this. What's the current status of ONTAP
support for Unix
ACLs? If Unix ACLs are supported, then are they preserved, too?
(speaking only for Solaris) ACL's are processed over nfs via nfs_acl (RPC service 100227). Looking at a 6.2 filer now, I don't see that its even registered, so it would be a safe guess that its still not supported at all.
ObCIFS_NFS_InteropNightmare: I guess if it did that would require a new qtree security model, 'mixed_up'.
..kg..
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Joe Luchtenberg