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