Re: Help

[Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>]

Wow..I had no idea it was such a problem. Thanks for letting us know. 

On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 13:57, Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 11:13:20AM -0800, Ted Hazlewood wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> There is no correlation at this stage.  There are currently two
> different sets of ACL userspace - you must have one or the other
> and not both, which means only one of XFS and ext2 (or ext3) can
> be using ACLs at any one time.
> 
> We expect to remedy this long-standing problem soon (2.4.18 + new
> ACL userspace), but until then you're stuck with the status quo,
> unfortunately.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> No, that's not currently possible due to the userspace/syscall
> differences.
> 
> cheers.
> 
> -- 
> Nathan
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Austin Gonyou
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Coremetrics, Inc.
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