Bug 151549
| Summary: | RHEL 4 Kernel does not provide ACL support over NFS | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | James Cooley <mitaru> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Steve Dickson <steved> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 4.0 | CC: | davej, ee-cap-admin-dl, jbaron, k.georgiou, mhansen, riel, sam.sharpe, s.j.thompson, tao, tkincaid | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHSA-2006-0132 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
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| Last Closed: | 2006-03-07 18:47:57 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 168429, 172741, 173386 | ||||||
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Description
James Cooley
2005-03-19 06:38:29 UTC
We see this too, I've just reported it via Web Support as Service Request 521464 Extract from my Support Request: ------------EXTRACT------------------- I have finally managed to confirm that there is no NFS V3 ACL support in RHEL4 GA release. This code has subsequently undergone refinement with a view to re-integration In addition the NFS V4 code has undergone a number of fixes since GA release to cover various issues. Although the code changes covering the above have been tested there is no date yet as to when they will be merged, or of when they will be released, but given current release cycles the earliest they are likely to appear is Update 2 which is probably on a September timeframe. ---------END EXTRACT------------------ I've just pleaded for an accelerated timescale based on the fact this wasn't mentioned as absent in the release notes and hence was expected to be included. *** Bug 158838 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I am experiencing the same. I'm running the newest RHEL4 all updates applied. does anyone know the status of this? Is it not solved yet? Created attachment 116511 [details]
Proposed patch
Here is the proposed patch that will add ACL support to NFS
in RHEL4 kernels. Unfortunately our QA group will not have
the cycles to test this so it will not be in the U2 release.
With that said, I would still like to get this code tested. So
I'm hopeful, through the "hot-fix" channel, I will be able
to make a patched kernel available.
Also, if anybody has some good ACL tests that they
would like to be included into our test, please make them
available.
Sorry for the late reply. Sorry, but I'm unable to test the patch right now. I'll try it the next time I get to play with fileservers not i production. Is it correct to interpret this as to expect ACL suport in NFS no sooner than RHEL4 upd 3? Or will it be available in one of the first kernel updates after the RHEL4 upd 2 release? I am astounded that this omission is still present so many months after the release of RHEL4. ACLs are important to me for delegating responsibility for file modifications. ACL support that doesn't even work over NFS is not of any use, since we have a _system_ not just a single computer on which everyone works and all websites live! Please get ACL over NFS working _soon_ and out into the RHN updates. Having paid for the service of a supposedly working system and updates, I really don't want to have to get into testing patches (though it's nice they're there for anyone wanting a quick solution to the problem). [Can I really be unusual in finding this a big problem? I'd have thought almost any system of more than a few computers would desire both NFS and ACL, unless so large as to be using a distributed filesystem.] I don't think you are unusual. We have an existing NFS infrastructure which needs ACLs (having only unix permissions is a real drag) - we're now looking at providing an AFS infrastructure because ACLs over that are independent of anything RH provides!!! (Incidentally, once U2 comes out, we'll be able to request a "hotfix" kernel for this issue from our support rep) In response to Nathaniel Taylor:
> (though it's nice
> they're there for anyone wanting a quick solution to the problem).
Perhaps a quicker and cheaper solution for you use to use the free Fedora
releases . That is probably a quicker way still for you to get ACLs working
over nfs, and will certainly save you money. In my experience, bugs are also
fixed faster in Fedora than in the enterprise linux. Go figure. I don't
understand.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0061.html An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0132.html *** Bug 184410 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |