Re: [Acl-devel] [PATCH 2/2] xattr.conf: remove entries for NFSv4 ACLs namespaces

[Kamil Dudka]

Could you please have a look at the proposed patches and provide feedback?

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/acl-devel/2019-03/msg00000.html
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/acl-devel/2019-03/msg00001.html

Kamil


On Monday, March 4, 2019 4:36:56 PM CEST Kamil Dudka wrote:
> ... in order to make it possible to copy NFSv4 ACLs by GNU coreutils'
> implementation of cp(1).  There is no way to make GNU coreutils copy
> extended attributes that are matched by any entry from /etc/xattr.conf.
> 
> GNU coreutils upstream says that NFS-related entries should be removed
> from the default /etc/xattr.conf to make copying of NFSv4 ACLs work:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2019-03/msg00008.html
> ---
>  xattr.conf | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/xattr.conf b/xattr.conf
> index 7361fbd..1ac5b2f 100644
> --- a/xattr.conf
> +++ b/xattr.conf
> @@ -11,8 +11,6 @@
>  # skip all extended attributes that are matched by any of the below
> patterns, # regardless of the specified action.
> 
> -system.nfs4_acl                      permissions
> -system.nfs4acl                       permissions
>  system.posix_acl_access              permissions
>  system.posix_acl_default     permissions
>  trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT              skip            # xfs specific