JT doesn't have that email account anymore, I'll try to get you his new one.
-Marc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boopathi Veerappan [mailto:boopathi@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 2:36 PM
> To: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Acl-Devel] maximum ACL entries for getfacl
>
>
> >On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 17:27, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> >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.)
> >
> >--
> >John M. Trostel
> >Senior Software Engineer
> >Quantum Corp.
> >john.trostel@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Is anybody has the above mentioned patch for 128 ACL entries
> available?
> I tried to contact John M. Trostel and the email bounced.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Boopathi.
>
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