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Re: ACL patches in Debian 2.4 series kernel.



On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 04:45:37PM +0200, Fabio Muzzi wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>   I  have  read the cahngelog for Debian version of kernel 2.4.27 (and .26
>   too) and I have found that the latest version of Posix ACL patches seems
>   to be 0.8.71, merged by Herbert Xu in April 2004.
> 
>   As far as I know, this version has bug that makes default ACLs disappear
>   from  directories  using  ext3  filesystem in certain conditions. I have
>   asked  on  the ACL mailing list and I was told that the bug was fixed in
>   verion 0.8.72.
> 
>   Has  this  bug also been fixed in Debian 2.4 kernels or not? I had found
>   nothing about it in Debian bug tracking system and in kernel changelog.
> 
>   Kind regards
> 
> -- 
> 
>  Fabio "Kurgan" Muzzi

you may want to prefer to use a 2.6 kernel there it is fixed anyway.
the 2.4 line is beeing phased out gradually.
i don't think there is enough interest in those advanced features for 2.4


--
maks



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