[NFS-Ganesha-Devel] Re: [Gluster-devel] Problems about cache virtual glusterfs ACLs for ganesha in md-cache

>> 1. Cache it separately as posix ACLs (a new option maybe >> "cache-glusterfs-acl" is added); >>      And make sure _posix_xattr_get_set fills them when lookup requests. >> > > I am not sure if posix layer can handle it. Virtual xattrs are > in-memory and not stored on disk. They are converted to/from posix-acl > in posix-acl xlator. So FWIU, posix-acl xlator should handle setting > these attributes as part of LOOKUP response if needed. Same shall > apply for any virtual xattr cached in md-cache. Request Poornima to > comment. Posix-acl can hand it correctly now.

> > At a time, any gfapi consumer would use either posix-acl or virtual > glusterfs ACLs. So having two options to selectively choose which one > of them to cache sounds better to me instead of unnecessarily storing > two different representations of the same ACL. Make sense. I will add another option for virtual glusterfs ACLs in md-cache.