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From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@hist.no>
To: Janusz Dziemidowicz <rraptorr@kursor.pl>
Cc: Diego Calleja <diegocg@teleline.es>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ext3 documentation (lack of)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:59:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <412352C9.7090006@hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0408181414450.18542@stacja.kursor.pl>

Janusz Dziemidowicz wrote:

> AFAIK
> user_xattr - turns on POSIX Extended attributes
> nouser_xattr - obvious
> acl - turns on ACL (Access Control Lists)
> noacl - obvious
>
> However these features are only present in 2.6.x, they are explained 
> in Help during kernel configuration. I'm not sure if acl requires 
> user_xattr to be turned on. I remember that I spent some time looking 
> for a way to enable these on ext2/ext3 :)

ACL's does not require use of the user_xattr mount option - I have tested
that acl's work on ext3 with only the "acl" option.  I guess user_xattr is
turned on automatically as needed - you can use the option if you want
posix extended attributes without acls.

Helge Hafting

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-18 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-18  0:59 [RFC] ext3 documentation (lack of) Diego Calleja
2004-08-18  6:01 ` Ryan Cumming
2004-08-18 11:38   ` Diego Calleja
2004-08-18 12:24     ` Janusz Dziemidowicz
2004-08-18 12:59       ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2004-08-18 17:17         ` Andreas Dilger
2004-08-18 16:42       ` Diego Calleja
2004-08-19  9:57         ` Janusz Dziemidowicz

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