[OpenAFS] Setting the setacl on newly created volumes
Sam Hartman
hartmans@mekinok.com
29 Jul 2001 00:51:00 -0400
>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> writes:
Jeffrey> Either of these are hard, but not impossible. They will
Jeffrey> require a new variant of the AFSVolCreateVolume RPC,
Jeffrey> allowing the owner and/or initial ACL to be specified.
Jeffrey> They will also require vos or the volserver to perform
Jeffrey> PTS lookups, which in turn means additional dependencies
Jeffrey> during the build and when setting up a new cell.
Jeffrey> ACL-parsing introduces some additional work, in the form
Jeffrey> of parsing the ACL on the command line and producing some
Jeffrey> suitable structure for use over the wire (FWIW, the
Jeffrey> existing 'fs sa' command does _not_ do any of this --
Jeffrey> ACL's are sent to the fileserver in a mostly-text format,
Jeffrey> and it handles all the name lookups as well as conversion
Jeffrey> to the format actually used on disk).
Any good reason why vos couldn't just make the fileserver RPC that fs
setacl uses?