Re: woody Debian Installer plans
Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at> writes:
> Torsten Landschoff <torsten@pclab.ifg.uni-kiel.de> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 10:58:32PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> > > > I am not sure if this works well with the Hurd. Doesn't it have some
> > > > extensions to the Linux filesystem model? I don't think a Linux install
> > > > can support it in that case.
> > > >
> > > mke2fs can format for the HURD, in fact you install the HURD from
> > > linux right now. Or do get something wrong here?
> >
> > I was thinking of new feature in the filesystem. I think the Hurd can have
> > extra info attached to inodes (for example ACLs, version info etc.).
> > I don't think that would be reachable from Linux.
> >
> It can, I think - with an ext2fs extension patch for the kernel. It's was a
> link from an Austrian Site, sorry no URL. Do a google search on ACL,
> and you'll find the mentioned site.
>
I didn't think you were talking about ACLs, but however, they are
essentially a filesystem feature (ext2fs has to be patched). The ACL
site only links to the extended-attributes site, since it needs it.
Andy
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