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Re: ACL Maximum Entries Restriction

To: Linse A Pallan <linsea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ACL Maximum Entries Restriction
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 09:24:01 -0600 (CST)
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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I'm fairly certain that doing this will require an on-disk
format change; there may be other issues as well.  John Trostel
had a patch at one point to allow this.  Please check
the archives for previous discussions of this issue, including
why you may be better off using groups.

-Eric

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Linse A Pallan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> While working with the XFS File system I found that we can have only maximum 
> of 25 entries per ACL. Is there any way to increase this Maximum limit? I 
> made try by changing the definition "#define XFS_ACL_MAX_ENTRIES 25" in file 
> fs/xfs/xfs_acl.h to "#define XFS_ACL_MAX_ENTRIES 1000". After this change I 
> rebuild the kernel and I am able to having maximum of 1000 entries per ACL. 
> Is there any pitfalls/drawbacks in increasing the ACL maximum entries limit 
> like this? Or is there any other way to increase the ACL Entries Maximum 
> Limit?
> 
> Thanking you in advance,
> 
> Linse A Pallan
> 
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