| Date | Thu, 31 Oct 2002 03:22:53 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: What's left over. |
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:00:31PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > > I don't know why people still want ACL's. There were noises about them for > > samba, but I'v enot heard anything since. Are vendors using this? > > SAMBA needs them, which is why serious Samba boxes use XFS. Tridge, > Ted?
XFS doesn't have ACLs either in plain 2.5.
> > Not for the feature freeze, there are some noises that imply that SuSE may > > push it in their kernels. > > They have, IIRC. Interestingly, it was less invasive (existing source > touched) than the LVM2/DM patch you merged.
But that only because dm added stuff to the generic code where we told it. It's a lot more code than dm and it adds new discovery code at the same time we start moving stuff _out_ of the kernel to initramfs.
If you can SuSE has merged it any IBM patch posted here should get in, coming from big blue seems to be a basic merge criteria in Nuernberg :)
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