Subject: Re: UFS ACLs and Extended attributes
To: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/05/2005 18:10:43
On Sep 3, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Juan RP wrote:

> I saw that support for extended attributes for UFS1 was committed
> previous week by thorpej, cool! but now I have some questions
> about this:
>
> * Can we use extended attributes on UFS1 and UFS2?

No.  The code I checked in was for UFS1 only.

> * Is required "options UFS_EXTATTR" when the filesystem is UFS2?

No.  When our UFS2 code is updated to include the native extattr  
support, the option will not be necessary for UFS2 extattrs.

> * Does NetBSD support Access Control Lists? (what's the status?)

No, it does not.  I would strongly DISCOURAGE adopting the ACL model  
used by FreeBSD.  The ACL model used in Mac OS X 10.4 is MUCH better.

-- thorpej