[OpenIndiana-discuss] Office apps unable to write to ZFS over CIFS

[Gordon Ross]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Martin Frost <me at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Thanks to all for the replies.  The Oracle Solaris documentation here:
>
>   http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/ftyxi/index.html
>
> says:
>
>     The primary rules of ACL access on a ZFS file follow:
>
>     * ZFS processes ACL entries in the order they are listed
>         in the ACL, from the top down.
>
>     * After an allow permission has been granted, it cannot be denied
>         by a subsequent ACL deny entry in the same ACL permission set.

Interesting.  That's not how MS defined the ACL evaluation algorithm.
I thought the point of NFSv4/ZFS ACLs was to be Windows compatible,
so I wonder if this was an intentional difference or an accident? (bug)

-- 
Gordon Ross <gwr at nexenta.com>
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