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From: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carvalho@gmail.com>
To: slava@dubeyko.com
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File permissions in ext4
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 15:23:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACyNnZM9Fm8s+3Eg-yL3bd0KSbZNvPCmUWEBrETCUdj_RMwnwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1375363302.2304.9.camel@slavad-ubuntu>

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?

-- 
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-01 13:23 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 [this message]
2013-08-01 13:35           ` Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2013-08-01 17:27   ` Eric Sandeen

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