Quoting sean finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > assuming you mean exclusively filesystem acls, acl support is > there... kind of. for ext2/ext3, there's a kernel-patch package > you can use to build your own kernel quite easily the Debian Way > with make-kpkg. > > the trouble is stuff you already hinted at, and a little more. for ext2 > and ext3 filesystems: > - they don't work with quotas > - they don't work with stock linux nfs (is there a nfs patch?) > - they also don't work on smp machines at all > - they are only partially supported by many of the userland utils
(I assume you're talking about the POSIX ACLs implementation at http://acl.bestbits.at/ . Following is from Andreas Grünbacher's write-up at http://acl.bestbits.at/problems.html .) ext2 doesn't seem to have been a problem; ext3 for a long time _had_ a problem with machines where ACLs/extended attributes were in use, _with_ quotas, _with_ SMP support -- but that's now believed to be fixed. Linux NFSv2 code doesn't support the ACCESS call to set/retrieve ACLs, but there's a patch for the Linux NFSv3 client, as well as for the two server-end alternatives. The bigger problem for heterogeneous sites is that there's no agreed-upon standard in the NFS definition for exactly how ACCESS is to be implemented, so such tend to be vendor-specific. -- <BLINK>Resize your browser so the following line touches both margins!</BLINK> <HR WIDTH="75%"> Best Regards, Rick Moen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
