I think most people are just confused by ACL's, i know i was when i first started using them. Having said that, once i got them set correctly, they work very well for my CIFS shares.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Paul B. Henson <hen...@acm.org> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Darren J Moffat wrote: > > > Anyone sharing files over CIFS backed by ZFS is using ACLs, particularly > > when there are only Windows clients. There are large number and some > > very significant in size deployments. > > If you're running the opensolaris in-kernel CIFS server, you avoid the > POSIX compatibility layer and zfs does actually work in a pure ACL fashion. > OTOH, under Solaris 10, I was unable to find a samba configuration that > didn't result in some files being hit by a chmod and losing their ACL. > > > I doubt it is something people tend to talk about or publish blogs etc > > on. That is probably the main reason you can't "find" them. > > It's not like I'm typing "People who use ZFS ACL's" into google and nothing > pops up, I'm inquiring in various forums generally populated by Solaris > using people, in which typically a "Hey, who uses foo?" post finds a fair > number of respondents. Given the dearth of responses, I can only conclude > their use is not very widespread. The most frequent response so far has > been along the lines of "ACL's suck. I wish they weren't there" 8-/. > > So far it's been quite a struggle to deploy ACL's on an enterprise central > file services platform with access via multiple protocols and have them > actually be functional and reliable. I can see why the average consumer > might give up. > > > -- > Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | > http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/<http://www.csupomona.edu/%7Ehenson/> > Operating Systems and Network Analyst | hen...@csupomona.edu > California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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