Re: [Acl-Devel] maximum ACL entries for getfacl

[Andreas Gruenbacher <ag@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 11 Sep 2002, John M Trostel wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 17:27, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > With XFS you will currently get no more than 25 ACL entries; with
> > ext2/ext3 the limit is set to 32. This has so far been enough for
> > everybody; if you seem to need bigger ACLs, please verify that you can't
> > use groups instead.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andreas.
>
> With the newer treatment of ACLs in XFS, the number can be increased
> beyond 25.  I have a working setup using a 128 ACE limit.  Let me know
> if you need that patch.  (Although as Andreas says, people really ought
> to use groups instead at that point.)

Did you also make sure this doesn't break Irix XFS filesystems?

--Andreas.