Re: linux capabilities and ACLs
Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
3 Feb 1999 10:54:20 +0100
In article <cistron.19990203103623.A29148@bolet.ens.fr>,
Thomas Pornin <pornin@bolet.ens.fr> wrote:
>According to David Watson <david@cs.ucsb.edu>:
>As far as I know, the ACL support for ext2 was planned, but never
>achieved, and now dropped, because an ACL field in the indode
>structure has been used to allow files bigger than 4GB. See the file:
>linux/include/linux/ext2_fs.h. It contains the following line:
>
>#define i_size_high i_dir_acl
>
>Which means that you cannot have ACL and +4GB files in the same time.
Doesn't that just mean you cannot have ACLs and directories > 2 GB
at the same time ?
Mike.
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