Re: Future: Filesystem ACL and SCM

2007-03-20 Thread Warren Togami
Dennis Gilmore wrote: - xattr's are currently not supported by NFS. i currently use linux ACL's over nfs very effectively Linux FS ACL's based on xattrs are not the same as POSIX ACL's. You have actual xattrs over nfs? Warren ___

Re: Future: Filesystem ACL and SCM

2007-03-20 Thread Matthew Galgoci
I talked with a few filesystem experts within Red Hat. They said... - ext3 has a limit of 4KB for xattr data. If you use the standard encoding of 8 bytes per uid, that has a limit of roughly 100 entities that could be associated with a file. Is this too limiting? I dunno. Perhaps it need