[Samba] Which filesystem supports ACL?

Stegbauer Thomas tsmailing at tronicplanet.de
Thu May 9 13:28:02 GMT 2002


Jean-Rene Cormier schrieb:

>Which filesystem supports ACL? Ext2/ext3 with the acl.bestbits.at patch,
>XFS and what other? Does 2.4.18 supports XFS or do you need a patch for
>it? What about ACL on XFS? Do you need a patch? Is there any filesystem
>that supports ACL, that the kernel supports without patches? Any place I
>can find a comparison of different filesystems with advantage and
>disadvantage of each? The Filesystems HOWTO seems outdated...
>
>Jean-Rene Cormier
>

hi,

until now only ext2/ext3 (with andreas gruenbacher's patch) and xfs 
(includes parts from andreas patch) support acl (on linux)

you need for both features patches (the acl patch for ext2/3 filesystem) 
or the xfs patch for 2.4.18 which includes acl support.

greetings
thomas






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