From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266223AbUHRNHd (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:07:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266303AbUHRM6B (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:58:01 -0400 Received: from hermine.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:42770 "HELO hermine.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266319AbUHRM4C (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:56:02 -0400 Message-ID: <412352C9.7090006@hist.no> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:59:53 +0200 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Janusz Dziemidowicz CC: Diego Calleja , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] ext3 documentation (lack of) References: <20040818025951.63c4134e.diegocg@teleline.es> <200408172301.09350.ryan@spitfire.gotdns.org> <20040818133818.7b0582f3.diegocg@teleline.es> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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