From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270428AbTGSBiQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 21:38:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270439AbTGSBiP (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 21:38:15 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:41141 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270428AbTGSBiO (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 21:38:14 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.22-pre7 From: Andre Tomt To: Mike Fedyk Cc: Felipe Alfaro Solana , LKML In-Reply-To: <20030719003824.GI2289@matchmail.com> References: <1058569601.544.1.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <20030719003824.GI2289@matchmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-Id: <1058575991.3407.117.camel@slurv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 19 Jul 2003 02:53:11 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 01:06:41AM +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > > > Will ACL/xattr support get its way onto mainstream 2.4 soon? > On l?, 2003-07-19 at 02:38, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Doubt it. > > Unless it gets into -ac or -aa for a long while and a whole bunch of users > clamor for it. > > So, is acl only working with ext[23] & XFS? What about reiserfs or jfs? There is one patch floating around for reiserfs, but thats probably _very_ unofficial code. JFS, no idea. > I was thinking of giving the acl patch a try one of these days. There are a > couple things where the ugo model doesn't work at my company. I've been using it for 1-2 years now in a few production setups, never had any problems with it. That is, other than waiting for a new release or doing a dirty forwardport myself breaking things each time mainstream 2.4 updates. The distro's I use also ships libraries to support it :-) -- Cheers, André Tomt andre@tomt.net