[Pkg-samba-maint] Debian and transparent Windows like ACLs on Samba

[Guido Günther]

Hi Luk,
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 07:51:18AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> Hi
> 
> In our organisation we would want to provide to our users the
> opportunity to use Windows like ACLs in a transparent way (aka behaviour
> when NFS mounted is similar than behaviour when use via Samba).
> 
> AFAICS currently this does not seem possible within Debian as:
>  * POSIX ACLs are confusing for users and clearly not good enough a
> match for Windows like ACLs
>  * storing the extra flags outside the filesystem while using POSIX ACLs
> means a non-transparent solution
>  * storing the extra flags inside the filesystem is currently not
> working with at least ext2fs, ext3fs, ext4fs (does someone know a
> filesystem that is working besides zfs?)
ext3 supports extended attributes with the user_xattr mount option, XFS
has them enabled by default. These could be used to store the flags in
the filesystem.
 -- Guido