[CentOS] ACLs iin Centos 4

[Johnny Hughes]

On Fri, May 6, 2005 9:32 am, Peter Farrow said:
> Hi There,
>
> It seems the default installer with Centos 4, enables DACs and the extra
> ACLs which DUMP cannot handle....
>
> so I get errors like "DUMP: ACLs in inode #nnnn won't be dumped"
>
> since DUMP and RESTORE is integral to my back policy for some 30+
> machines I would like to know if its possible to turn off the extra ACLs
> in the file system as I really don't need them...
>
> Can tune2fs do this for me or do I have to re-build the filesystems with
> some option that I currently don't know...
>
> P.

This is not something that can be fixed (at least not the file system).

See the Release Notes:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/html/release-notes/as-x86/

(Search for Extended Attributes on the page)

This is an upstream problem.  See these links on the Upstream mailing lists:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-November/msg08868.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-December/msg02754.html

According to RedHat, these are not issues that will break your backups:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=142525


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