On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:49:59PM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote: > > does that mean libacl will need to know about the on disk format for > > ACL extended attributes for each filesystem it supports? > > > > No, we'll convert to/from a common (VFS) format into the XFS-specific > format before writing / after reading the ACL. hmm, but as im understanding this libacl will just be writing an extended attribute to a file, how will XFS, or whatever know this attribute is for ACLs rather then just some arbitrary attribute? the acl.bestbits.at site is rather light on technical info.. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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