hi,
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 06:03:38PM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm new to the list and to XFS. I am doing preliminary research to assess
> whether we should use XFS in our Samba server or not. We intend to use the
> latest release of Samba (v2.2) which supposedly supports XFS ACLs, on a
> Linux machine with the latest Linux 2.4.4 kernel patched up to support XFS
> Release 1.0.
>
> Has anyone actually set up a server with Samba 2.2 acknowledging XFS ACLs?
>
I believe the Connex folk are building a product offering just that -
they'll be able to add more details than I can. (John?)
> Also, there is this Extended Attributes and Access Control Lists for Linux
> project at <http://acl.bestbits.at/>. It looks to me like this is a bunch
> of patches and tools to make ext2 and the Linux kernel work with EAs and
> ACLs.
>
> Does XFS need these patches?
No. At this stage these are largely disjoint projects.
> Or does XFS implement ACLs on its own, with its own tools and such?
Yes.
> Does XFS support EAs?
Yes.
>
> In line with ACLs, where can I read up on how XFS implements them? In
> particular I'd like to find out about how default ACLs and inheritance are
> implemented in XFS.
>
I guess there's three main sources: the draft posix ACL standard,
the man pages that come with the ACL and EA commands (see cmd/acl
and cmd/attr in the xfs cvs repository), and the kernel source.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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