Re: Linux 2.4.22-pre7

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Sat Jul 19 2003 - 03:22:46 EST


On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 05:38:24PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 01:06:41AM +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 21:53, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Here goes -pre7.
> >
> > Will ACL/xattr support get its way onto mainstream 2.4 soon?
>
> Doubt it.
>
> Unless it gets into -ac or -aa for a long while and a whole bunch of users
> clamor for it.

The VFS infrastructure for ACLs and the XFS ACL code is in -aa for a long
time.

> So, is acl only working with ext[23] & XFS? What about reiserfs or jfs?

ACLs work with XFS, ext[23] and JFS in 2.4 and 2.4+patches. In addition
SuSE ships patches for xattr/ACL on reiserfs but namesys doesn't like them.

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