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
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