On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:02:26AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> 
> >> and also a non-acl ffs be used on a system with an acl aware kernel,
> >> which does not cause the addition of acl features to the filesystem
> >> but is still useable by that acl aware system, just sans acls.
> > Thats fine - and actually, it would be very hard to avoid this
> > property.
> 
> I don't see why; you could configure a kernel with
> 	file-system     ACLFFS
> 	#file-system    FFS
> and get exactly that.  (Of course, this would depend on ACLs being
> added in this way, but I don't see why that couldn't be done.)

Could be added as a FFS version, like long u/gid, variable length cylinder
group metadata area, etc. - I was thinking that. 

That is, a new kernel would understand old FFS, but not vice versa.

	-is