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

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

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On Thu, September 7, 2006 14:04, Kari Mattsson wrote:
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> 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

I took a quick look at our kernel config and there are no ACL or EA
options available for ext2 or reiserfs. These are probably separate
patches.
BUT we have XFS included, which has support for this. Good enough?

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org

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