Hi Tom,
Do you mean: "does UNIX support ACLs"? Some flavors of UNIX (e.g. Solaris) support their own proprietary ACLs (and as far as I know, none of the UNIX ACLs are compatible with each other). The filer does not support UNIX ACLs, just UNIX-style file permissions. UNIX file permissions are retained when backing up a filer via NFS or CIFS.
NT ACLs are NOT retained when backing up a multiprotocol filer via NFS.
Regards,
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: tkaczma@gryf.net [mailto:tkaczma@gryf.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 1:35 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Metadata preservation during network file backup
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Itzik (Itzhak) Meirson DSc. wrote:
If backing up this share from CIFS will the NFS ACLs be preserved upon restore?
Does NFS support ACLs?
Tom
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Benn, Paul wrote:
Do you mean: "does UNIX support ACLs"?
No, I just thought that I might have missed something as I was almost certain that NFS didn't support ACLs and that the NFS engineering group was considering putting ACLs in the new version (4 ?).
BTW, did NetApp ever consider putting AFS on the Filers? I don't know how much market there is for it, but I think most of the bigger educational institutions use it.
Tom
BTW, did NetApp ever consider putting AFS on the Filers?
Excellent question! I keep asking NetApp every couple of years since about '94 for DFS and the answer, of course diplomatic, is a firm 'no' followed by "there is not enough market for DFS, NT will be our next target". So, how many out there or you know of will buy a NetApp/DFS protocol if it was available??? Understand, this question is being asked to the wrong audience. Most of 'toaster' list , I assume, are NFS & CIFS customers.
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From: tkaczma@gryf.net Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:50:25 -0500 (CDT) Subject: RE: Metadata preservation during network file backup To: toasters@mathworks.com
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Benn, Paul wrote:
Do you mean: "does UNIX support ACLs"?
No, I just thought that I might have missed something as I was almost certain that NFS didn't support ACLs and that the NFS engineering group was considering putting ACLs in the new version (4 ?).
BTW, did NetApp ever consider putting AFS on the Filers? I don't know how much market there is for it, but I think most of the bigger educational institutions use it.
Tom
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