"Bryan J. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>
XFS is in the 2.6 kernel, and supported POSIX ACLs on Linux _before_ any
other filesystem.  In fact, the POSIX ACL implementation for 2.6 (as of
2.5.3+), which has now been backported to 2.4, which Ext3 uses, _was_
written and designed by the XFS team.
<<

Oh, no doubts about its pedigree - only how widely implemented it is. And
will be, in the timeframe of this exam. At some point, someone will have to
draw line, and above it will be those things we can reasonably expect a
competent candidate to know and use. Should the interaction between Samba
ACL's and XFS ACL's be above the line, or below? Especially since our
filesystem security tasks make no mention of attributes or ACL's at all. .
.

Best,

--- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP
[http://www.lesbell.com.au]


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