On Wednesday 16 October 2002 00:21, tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> This patch adds ACL support to the ext3 filesystem.
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 23:22, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote
[about the problems RedHat had with the patch]:
> The main problems were in standards conformance --- permissions on
> normal files not using ACLs were sometimes handled incorrectly with
> the ACL patches applied. We also saw error-handling problems where
> non-fatal conditions (eg. truncate() to an illegal file size) were
> treated as fatal, potentially taking the whole fs offline.
The standard conformance is already fixed ("goto check_group"). This is the
fix to the error handling.
acl-ext3-fix-tree.diff is the fix relative to the 0.8.51 bestbits patch;
acl-ext3-inode.c.diff includes all changes from 2.4.19. I make a 0.8.52 now.
--Andreas.
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