ABE share property for NFS and SMB [PSARC/2009/375 Self Review]

[Darren J Moffat]

Alan.M.Wright wrote:
>>> This case proposes a new share property to support Access Based
>>> Enumeration (ABE) on NFS and SMB shares.
>>>
>>> The NFS and SMB services will consume the interface defined by
>>> PSARC/2009/246, which added ABE support to ZFS.  The ABE share
>>> property will provide administrators with the ability to enable
>>> ACL based directory content filtering on NFS and SMB shares.
>>> As described in PSARC/2009/246, with ABE enabled, entries to
>>> which the requesting user has no access will be omitted from
>>> the dirent data returned by the file system.
>>>
>>> Additional information is available in the following RFEs:
>>> 6802734 Support for Access Based Enumeration
>>> 6802736 SMB share support for Access Based Enumeration
>>> The proposed property name and values are:
>>>
>>> abe=boolean
>>
>> IMO that isn't a very descriptive name for end admins isn't there 
>> anything better ?  If there isn't then fair-enough.
> 
> It's generally known as ABE.

Okay.

>> Is this a ZPL property or a normal one ?
> 
> Neither.
> 
>> Why is this a separate per dataset property rather than an option for 
>> sharenfs or sharesmb ?
> 
> It's a regular per-share property that can be set via sharemgr or
> via sharenfs/sharesmb.

Okay, great I got confused in my reading of the case and assumed where 
it said property it mean't ZFS property.

I agree this is suitable for Self Review as specified.

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Darren J Moffat