I agree with Austin..
I use the current CVS of the XFS kernel and ACLs with the HEAD branch of Samba
without trouble.
It adds in multiple users and groups from the AD domain no problem.
On 13-Feb-2002 Austin Gonyou wrote:
> I'd recommend using the POSIX ACLs that come with a xfs kernel, then go
> get the helper programs from CVS for that patch version. (acl, etc is in
> there)
>
> On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 13:13, Ted Hazlewood wrote:
>> I'm running RedHat 7.2 build from your RedHat 7.2 ISO XFS ver 1.02 with
>> Samba 2.2.3a and Winbind
>>
>> This comes with Kernel 2.4.9
>>
>> My other machine (Machine2) is RedHat 7.2 ext3 with Kernel 2.4.17 with
>> POSIX ACL Samba 2.2.3a and Winbind
>>
>> What I was doing with Machine2 was using Winbind from Samba to use a
>> Windows
>> NT PDC to get usernames and group names from.
>> With this config I could add and remove multiple users and groups using
>> my
>> Windows Explorer and make multiple ACE changes.
>> This was great but we like the performance of XFS.
>>
>> The POSIX ACL site doesn't have patches to work with XFS. The site is
>> http://acl.bestbits.at/ They are on version 0.7.27
>> The only version of POSIX ACL I can find that your XFS ver 1.02 has is
>> an
>> RPM ver acl-1.1.3-0. I don't see any correlation of version numbers
>> except
>> the kernel they are configured for.
>>
>>
>> With your version of POSIX ACL I am not able to make any changes from a
>> Windows Explorer. I have spoken to the SAMBA Team and they first
>> thought
>> they had a bug in the new 2.2.3a. But I can get it to work with ext3 so
>> now
>> I think that the problem is the version of POSIX ACL you have included
>> in
>> ver 1.02.
>>
>> What I would like to try is either installing RedHat 7.2 with XFS ver
>> 1.02
>> without POSIX ACL and then recompile with Kernel 2.4.17 and ACL POSIX
>> 0.7.27. If this is possible.
>> Or if there already is a fix for my problem that you may know about.
>>
>> Either way I need assistance from the awesome creators of XFS.
>>
>> Is there source of XFS ver 1.02 without ACL or do you know of a way to
>> update XFS ver 1.02 to the ACL POSIX 0.7.27 and later kernel if needed.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Ted Hazlewood
>> Senior Systems Administrator
>> Public Communications Services
>> (310) 954-3024 Phone
>> (310) 954-2139 Fax
>> ted.hazlewood@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> <www.teampcs.com>
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>
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