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

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

On Fri, September 8, 2006 14:11, Kari Mattsson wrote:
> Bruce Smith wrote:
>
>>>> BUT we have XFS included, which has support for this. Good enough?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Mmm..  I reformatted the reiserfs on the test system to xfs.
>>> Nope, it didn't quite do it.  With options 'defaults,acl' mount still
>>> gives arror
>>>
>>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
>>> missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in
>>> syslog
>>>
>>> ...and in syslog:
>>>
>>>
>>> ..... kernel: XFS: unknown mount option [acl].
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure you need to mount XFS with the acl option for ACL's to
>> work.
>>
>> Mount the XFS volume with just 'defaults' and try to create an ACL.
>>
>
> Good try ;-)  ...however, setfacl consistently (ext2/ext3/reiserfs/xfs)
> responded:
>
>
> # setfacl -m user:jdoe:r file1
> setfacl: file1: Operation not supported

OK from what I could find out, it seems we still need to apply the
separate AE+ACL patches to the kernel.
http://acl.bestbits.at/
Those patches are quite old, no idea if they will even apply to Kernel
2.4.33.x ...

There also seems that the XFS AE+ACL stuff never made it in the mainstream
Kernel and it has to be extracted from the XFS CVS repository...

I doubt I'll have time this weekend to look at it any more.

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  Heiko Zuerker
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