[CentOS] ACLs iin Centos 4

Fri May 6 16:50:28 UTC 2005
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Fri, May 6, 2005 11:20 am, Peter Farrow said:
> Hi There,
>
> According to tune2fs man page you should be able to do a tune2fs -o ^acl
> /dev.........
>
> But this doesn't work either,  I think I'll just grep out the warning
> for now....
>
> thanks for all the help
>
> Pete

You are welcome ... but it is not really an ACL (as defined by tune2fs)
but something new with SELinux (an Extended Attribute).

>
>
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
>>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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