Thanks for your reply... about point 1, I am a little confused. Looking at their descriptions and homepages, they seem to be destined to use for xfs, not ext2/3, which have their utilities at acl.bestbits.at.
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 11. M�rz 2003 16:40 schrieb ext Andrei Ivanov: > > Hello, > > I want to use ext3 acls and I was wondering, how are they supported by > > gentoo ? I was reading that I need a modified version of fileutils and > > fsck support ? Are they already in gentoo or do I have to install > > something else ? Also, is there an ebuild for acl utils ? > You need to... > 1) emerge acl (and attr if you want to use extended user attributes) > 2) recompile your kernel with the appropriate options for acl and/or > attributes support enabled for ext2/3. > 3) add mount options acl and user-xattr (or was it user_xattr) to your fstab > for every filesystem where you want to use acl's. > 4) reboot with the new kernel > 5) use acl's > 6) Be carefull about backup. Use star instead of tar (tar cannot backup > acl's) and read the instructions for backing up the attributes (if you use > them) on the ACL project home page. > > HTH... > > Dirk > -- > Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)151 1513 6954 > Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 > Cap Gemini Ernst & Young| Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hambornerstra�e 55 | Web: http://www.cgey.com > D-40472 D�sseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
