On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:41:55AM -1000, Todd Lee wrote:
> Does Red Hat have a particular patch that works well on implementing ACL
> filesystems? I've found acl.bestbits.at and was just wondering if anyone has
> used it with Red Hat 8 (which I really like by the way) and if there were
> any problems, or is there a better version I should try?
>
> Does anyone know if Red Hat or any Linux distro will incorporate ACL's
> anytime soon into the Kernel by default? It would make replacing Windows
> File servers much easier! (Not that there aren't other reasons to switch)
Red Hat had included ACL support in the limbo and null releases (betas
of what became Red Hat Linux 8.0). The instabilities it caused forced
them to pull the code before they started shipping. This leads me to
conclude:
1. Red Hat wants to make it work but not bad enough to hold up an
entire release for.
2. Red Hat will probably include it when it's ready.
3. Although it may work for you now - and it does work fine for some
other users - you may run into the same issues that Red Hat ran into.
Red Hat usually bangs on certain features very hard and will find bugs
that the average user may not run into. Red Hat, however, tries very
hard to ensure that the features work for everybody, not just the
average user. Depending on where you fit determines if the ACL support is
appropriate for you.
.../Ed
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