On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:34:00PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> The team at http://acl.bestbits.at/ that support ext2/ext3 patches for ACLs
> and
> the XFS support team have merged their user tools for working with ACLs.
>
> The JFS team has stated that adding ACL support is a top priority now that
> there
> is a standard API in the kernel. I imagine they too will use the above
> userland
> tools.
Yes, with me one of the JFS/Linux core-team members is working on EA/ACL
support, but for now this is targeted at 2.5 only - 2.4 code should be almost
the same but without the EA interface set in stone it doesn't make sense to
work on it yet.
> End-user code such as Samba 2.2.3a support this interface.
Is the new (attr2/acl2) interface really compatible to samba 2.2.3a?
> In other words, I would say the ACLs in Linux have gone from experimental to
> standardized.
No. 2.5 has a EA interface that still is changing (i.e. locking changes in
XFS CVS or the recent discussion on !IFREG && !IFDIR EAs) and NO standadized
ACL interface in mainline at yet.
Any distributor that ships ACL support now has the risk of having to support
obsolete ACL interfaces or binary incompatible changes from the last version
(like Mandrake 8.1 -> 8.2 with the incompatible EA change).
Christoph
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