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
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