> After the recent ACL thread, and in testing samba-2.2.3a, it turns out > that Posix-ACLs for XFS (modified from samba) are not working in > 2.4.8-4mdk. > > I haven't got too much debugging information yet (did initial tests at > home, at work now ...), and no easy way to test this yet (except > running samba with an XFS filesystem shared out, and trying to modify > ACLs from WinNT/Win2k/Winxp), though I am working on it ... > > > For reference, XFS ACLs worked out the box in Mandrake 8.1 > (samba-2.2.1a-15mdk on kernel 2.4.8-26mdk), with the kernel > (2.4.8-34mdk) and samba (2.2.2-3.4mdk I think) updates, and even on > Mandrake 8.0 when running the official kernel update (2.4.8-34.1mdk?) > with a newer samba. It also works on Mandrake 8.1 kernel 2.4.8-34mdk > with samba-2.2.3a-6mdk (so I don't think it is samba). > > A robust linux filesystem with support for ACLs and quotas, in > combination with samba which is has support for ACLs and quotas on > that filesystem, and with winbind is a Windows 2000 killer, not to > mention a very cool file server (if NFS on an the same partitions is > stable ...). At the moment (AFAIK), XFS is the only filesystem which > can do this. It would be really cool to see this working. > > Has anyone ever managed to get setfacl working? getfacl sees my ACL > changes I apply from windows (with Mdk8.1), but I can't get setfacl to > work. It might be an easier way to test ACLs. > > Regards, > Buchan
we need the new xfsprogs, acl,atrr ... version 2.0.x the kernel interface changed with 2.4.18
