> 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


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