[Devil-Linux-discuss] ACL and EA support in DL kernel? Not there now, I guess.

[Kari M. <kar...@tr...>]

Hi all fellow DL'ers!

Apparently (please see the link below) for ACL and extended attributes 
(EAs) to work with Samba, those components also have to be in the kernel.

Before spending too much time trying/testing, I go the shortest path and 
ask :-) ... Is ACL and EA functionality in the Linux kernel in DL?

If not, could it be added?  The ACL userland tools are there already. 
It would indicate the answer would be yes...

I did a quick test of creating/formatting ext2, ext3 and reiserfs 
partitions. When having options 'defaults,acl' in /etc/fstab resulted 
with error '.. bad option ..' when entering command 'mount -av' to mount 
the 3 partitions.  Leaving ',acl' away resulted clean mounts, but 
obviously there is no ACL then.

I didn't even try fstab option 'user_xattr'.

The link:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=111720880005278&w=2

//Kari Mattsson