Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] ACL support for ext2/3

[Robson Paniago de Miranda]

I think Andreas Gruenbacher released version 0.8.51 solving a bug in 
which a user could receive the "others" permission if the group 
permissions are zero. There is still time to integrate these changes?

Robson

> The following patch set adds ACL support to the ext2/3 filesystem.  It
> is a port of the 0.8.50 patches from Andreas Gruenbacher.  It requires
> the Extended Attribute patches which I had sent earlier as a
> pre-requisite, and represents the 2nd of 3 sets of patches from the
> acl.bestbits.at code.  (The first set was the EA patches; this is the
> second set of patches; and the third set of patches adds ACL support to
> NFS, so that the NFS server respects the ACL set on the filesystem.)
> 
> Some of these patches in this set are shared in common with the XFS
> filesystem, and are needed for ACL support in XFS as well.  These
> patches are versus 2.5.40, and still reflect the original design
> decision of allowing ext2 and ext3 ACL support to be available as
> separate standalone modules.  (See the discussion of the EA patches
> about whether or not this makes sense.)
> 
> Please comment/bleed on these patches.