On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Larry Nguyen wrote:

> > We are going to need a kernel update for this very soon if anyone wants
> > to have a good reputation for 9.1 (specifically samba use) ... 8.1
> > through 9.0 had working ACLs, and Redhat 9 will be the first release
> > with ACLs ...
> 
> on ext3? I doubt it. See http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,979046,00.asp
> 

Ahh, they decided against it, but they did have them enabled in the beta.

Of course, SuSE will have working ACLs, and even Knoppix does AFAIK?

Weird that they decided to pull it due to NFS, when most uses of ACLs are 
via samba ... I guess they don't want to compete with Windows in 
coprporate filesharing then ...

Buchan

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