From: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
To: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carvalho@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File permissions in ext4
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:35:10 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1375364110.2304.11.camel@slavad-ubuntu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACyNnZM9Fm8s+3Eg-yL3bd0KSbZNvPCmUWEBrETCUdj_RMwnwg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 15:23 +0200, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com> wrote:
> > config EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL
> > POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
> > groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
> >
> > To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
> > Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
>
> Aha, so it is just a more advanced version of the permissions. But I
> suppose that i_mode will always be valid even if the file system also
> support ACL, correct?
>
As I understand, yes. Because ACLs are simply enhancement of permission
model.
With the best regards,
Vyacheslav Dubeyko.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-01 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-01 12:02 File permissions in ext4 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
2013-08-01 12:34 ` Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
2013-08-01 12:59 ` Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2013-08-01 13:09 ` Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
2013-08-01 13:19 ` Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
2013-08-01 13:21 ` Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2013-08-01 13:23 ` Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
2013-08-01 13:35 ` Vyacheslav Dubeyko [this message]
2013-08-01 17:27 ` Eric Sandeen
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