[Samba] What FS type for ACL support ?

[Ken McCord]

If you use XFS, make sure to use 1.1 or higher.  We had problem with
hard hangs using XFS 1.02.  This was on an IBM xSeries 330 with an 800
GB EXP300 RAID array.

We use the ACL support on XFS with Samba 2.2.4 and Netatalk.

Ken McCord


On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 19:29, Noel Kelly wrote:
> You have a choice of two, Sabrina:
> 
> Either:
> EXT2 with the patches from acl.bestbits.ac - requires kernel rebuild and may
> not work with RedHat's patched kernel releases.
> 
> Or:
> XFS from SGI - also requires SGI kernel source.  There is also an adapted
> Redhat installer ISO which allows you to specify XFS as the filesystem
> during install.
> 
> One of the easiest ways to get XFS is to find a copy of Mandrake 8.2 - it
> allows XFS as the filesystem of choice during installation.  You then just
> need the ACL utils from bestbits and away you go!
> 
> Cheers,
> Noel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LAUTIER Sabrina [mailto:slautier at lavache.com]
> Sent: 14 June 2002 16:46
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] What FS type for ACL support ?
> 
> 
> Hi !
> 
> I would like to setup ACL on my RH7.2 box to be able to set/check
> permissions on SMB shares (linux-samba and win2k).
> 
> Which file system type to use: XFS, DFS ? Which one is the best
> recommanded for my configuration ?
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Sabrina
> 
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