On Monday 26 April 2010 14:00:51 andy baxter wrote: > I am setting up a file server for a small company. The people who will > be using it want to be able to control who accesses particular > directories on a user/group basis. > [T]hey are > keen to have a system which allows them to make some parts of the > filesystem available to more than one group. > > I think that to achieve this I will need to set up samba with unix ACLs, > but I'm not sure what's the best way of doing this - the two options > seem to be using a patched kernel with an ext3 filesystem, or else using > the XFS filesystem which has built in ACL support. Which of these would > you recommend? The Lenny kernel is configured with POSIX ACL support for ext2/3/4dev and generic ACL support. I don't think you'll need to patch the kernel, but I could be wrong. > The XFS option seems a lot simpler to maintain (no need to patch the > kernel every time an update is released), but I'm worried that because > this filesystem is not used so much, it may not be as reliable as ext3. XFS is mature, fast, and well-supported by the kernel team. If your system is subject to unclean shutdowns (e.g. power failure w/o a UPS), you might want to tune your system to flush the XFS cache to disk a bit more often than the defaults. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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