[Samba] acl quotas

[John H Terpstra]

On Wednesday 05 January 2005 03:28, Patrick DUBAU wrote:
> Thanks  John for your answer.
> I installed Debian sarge 3.1 rc1 with kernel 2.6, XFS and quota. This
> works fine, i didn't have to recompile anyhing.
> But know i try the ACL. If  i understood your message, i have to
> recompile the kernel, right ?
> What is EA, i just don't know what it is.
> Thxs
>
> John H Terpstra a écrit :
> >On Tuesday 04 January 2005 01:48, Patrick DUBAU wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>i'm about to reinstall samba 3.7 on debian sarge with quota and acl
> >>support. What is  the best file system to use : ext3 or xfs ?
> >>Does i have to compile the kernel for having the quota and acl support ?
> >
> >On 2.4 kernel you need to patch in the best-bits ACLs and EA patches. The
> > 2.6 kernel has them already. It is necessary to activate the ACLs and EA
> > capabilities before building the kernel.

EA is extended attributes. Samba maps Windows 2000 ACLs to a combination of 
POSIX ACLs and EAs.

- John T.
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