> According to David Watson <david@cs.ucsb.edu>:
> > I'm also interested in knowing the status on ACL support. Is support
> > being worked on? Can it be added to ext2, or is something new needed?
>
> 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:
I certainly hope not. It's one of the few features where we are behind
other UNIX's.
ACL's were supposed to be in 2.2 but never got merged in time. There are
patches for ACL's relative to 2.1.100 or so kicking around on tsx-11 I
believe.
Cheers
Chris
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