Re: Repeat: Difficulties with large ACL/DACL counts

[Tim Shimmin <tes@xxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

We haven't forgotten.
cmd/xfstests/067 was written to reproduce your problem.
Been a bit busy with other stuff.

--Tim

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:16:05PM -0400, John M Trostel wrote:
> There are really 2 problems described below.  The first problem in which
> having _exactly_ 21 Access ACEs and _exactly_ 21 Default ACEs on a
> directory leads to system panics REMAINS.
> 
> I suspect this is related to whether or not the ACEs and DACEs are small
> enough to be represented as 'short-form' EAs.  Note that it occurs
> between 20 entries (4 + 20*12 = 244 bytes) and 21 entries ( 4 + 21*12 =
> 256 bytes).
> 
> The second problem, in which the 17th created ACE resulted in an
> 'arguement list too long' message, has indeed been corrected.
> 
>