On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:49:38PM -0700, Marion Hakanson wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I've seen discussion that tar & cpio are "ZFS ACL aware";  And that
> Veritas NetBackup is not.  GNU tar is not (at this time);  Joerg's "star"
> probably will be Real Soon Now.  Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> What about other utilities like Samba and rsync?  We'd like to share
> out ZFS storage via both NFS and CIFS, the latter of which is going
> to require Samba here.  Is there a version of Samba which will allow
> SMB clients to do ACL's the way a Windows/NTFS file server can support?
> I've seen Samba do this (sorta) on a Linux Samba server using an XFS
> filesystem.  Anybody tried this using Solaris/ZFS?

yes, I've tried it. Samba doesn't yet support the ZFS/NFSv4 style ACL
interface. I wanted to look at implementing it, but the time has so
far escaped me.

> In the rsync case, I can see using rsync to migrate data from old storage
> on UFS or SAM-QFS (which may have ACL's set), to new ZFS storage.  It sure
> would be nice if rsync would copy the ACL's at the same time.

I haven't tried rsync. another data point is that ufsrestore doesn't
work for ZFS ACLs yet either.

grant.

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