RE: xattr.conf & system.nfs4_acl

[Ondrej Valousek]

Thanks Kamil,

Andreas, are you the maintainter of libattr?
If not, who is?
If yes, could you please provide some explanation/ best approach here?

Thanks,
Ondrej 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> 
Sent: úterý 27. prosince 2022 12:08
To: Ondrej Valousek <ondrej.valousek.xm@renesas.com>
Cc: Andreas Grünbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>; acl-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: xattr.conf & system.nfs4_acl

Hi Ondrej,

On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 8:53:37 AM CET Ondrej Valousek wrote:
> Hi Andreas/all
> 
> I just noticed that on newer distros (i.e. Fedora37) is "system.nfs4_acl" 
> missing from /etc/xattr.conf whereas it's present on older (RHEL-8).
> Question - why is that?
> From what I understand it means old distros can't copy NFS4 ACLs using "cp 
> -a" whereas this will work on newer distros. Is that the only reason you 
> removed it?
> Tried to google it out but failed, so hence wanted to ask.

there was no such change upstream.  I asked for it multiple times but upstream 
has never replied on this:

    
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... so I ended up pushing it as a Fedora-only change:

    
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Kamil

> Thanks,
> Ondrej
> 
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