On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:25:45AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 18:36:38 +0300,
> "Tarkan Erimer" <tarkane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >I have a question about ACL support. Only installing XFS into the Linux
> >kernel enough to get support ACLs? Or Is there any
> >need to install ACL kernel patches found at http://acl.bestbits.at/ ?
>
> There are at least two groups working on ACLs for Linux and they
> disagree about how they should be implemented. SGI has one
> implementation of ACL, included in the XFS patch. Andreas Grünbacher's
> ACLs are different and will not work with XFS.
>
To clarify that, we don't disagree at all, we're gradually working towards
a common implementation. Things have moved slowly, but we have a friendly
relationship with the ext2 people, and in due course we want to merge
our efforts. Hopefully there will be more visible progress in the next
couple of months.
Andrew
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