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Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:20:08 +0200
From: Laurent CARON <lcaron@lncsa.com>
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On 07/07/2011 15:26, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> Le Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:44:10 +0200
> Laurent CARON<lcaron@lncsa.com>  =E9crivait:
>
>> I'd like to know if it is possible in a simple&  safe way to increase
>> the number of supported ACLs on an already existing FS.
>
> I just realised I missed that part : there is absolutely no way to
> change an existing filesystem after the fact.
>
> My previous answer was about the fact that by installing a modified
> kernel module, there is a slight possibility that you can create a
> NEW filesystem with more ACLs (and beware, this is untested,
> unsupported, uncharted territory, "there be dragons" and al). Given that
> the modified xfs module actually works, given that the mkfs.xfs and
> other tools behave as expected (unlikely), and that the whole setup
> won't fall down in flames the first time you actually create 26 ACLs on
> a file, etc.
>

Thanks.

I'll cope with this limit for now and eventually will move to some other =

FS in the future if I still need to use more than 25 ACLs.

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