[CentOS] Centos-4.2 and ACL's over NFS

Wed Feb 8 20:42:14 UTC 2006
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 at 2:41pm, Johnny Hughes wrote

> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:13 -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 at 5:09pm, Dr. Hansjoerg Maurer wrote
>>
>>> has anyone managed to get ACL's working on an nfs exported Filesystem
>>> with Centos-4.2 (server and client)?
>>> The work fine on the local filesystem (ext3)
>>> and the upstream vendor docs tell, that nfs acl's should work (by default).
>>
>> Search the list archives -- the docs lie.  This doesn't work on centos-4
>> yet.  It's advertised as a feature of U3 upstream, but ISTR there being a
>> lot of bugs with it in the beta kernel.  If you really need it, fall back
>> to centos-3, where it *does* work.
>>
> I want to point out that this is an upstream issue and not CentOS
> specific :)

I certainly never meant to imply it was centos-specific.  I'm more than 
happy to blame upstream whenever possible!  ;)

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University