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Old 07-09-2003
Skylar Thompson
 
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Default Re: ACLs in Linux

On 09 Jul 2003 09:02:34 GMT, Casper H.S Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> wrote:
> Skylar Thompson <skylar@amayatra.os2.dhs.org> writes:
>
>>I've had good experience with the ACLs in SGI's XFS filesystem. They are
>>fully POSIX-compliant, and journaled too. Ext3 recently got ACL support as
>>well, but I believe it's in the form of a kernel patch. XFS has had ACLs
>>from the beginning, and they are likely to be safer for production
>>use.

>
> There's no such thing as "fully POSIX-compliant ACLs".


Yes there are. XFS supports the standards specified in POSIX 1003.1e.

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