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

To: Leo Qiu <leoxqiu@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Acl-Devel] maximum ACL entries for getfacl
From: Andreas Gruenbacher <ag@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 23:27:55 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: <acl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Leo Qiu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am running libacl on Linux XFS. I found that I could
> not have more than 16 ACL entries for one file. After
> a little investigation, it seems to me that I can
> actually set more than 16 ACL entries on a file, but I
> can not get them. I am wondering why there is such a
> limit for ACL.

That was an XFS bug, and has been fixed a while ago. Your workaround is
correct, though. The XFS guys will likely still recommend you to upgrade
to a more recent version, because of other fixes.

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.

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