On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 01:24, Stuart Sears wrote: > On Monday 13 September 2004 20:42, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > <snip> > > It could be that the partition hasn't been formatted with ACL support > > (the formatting was made by the installer) but I haven't seen any > > option in mkfs.ext3 or tune2fs for ACL support. > This may be where you are mistaken - acls are not an FS/formatting option, > they are a mount-time option. > to make them work on (for example) your /tmp filesytem you must mount it with > the acl option turrned on. As a temporary measure: > mount -o remount,acl /tmp > should do it. > Then try your setfacl commands > as a permanent measure you need to add the 'acl' option to your fstab file (eg > instead of 'defaults') - giving a line like: > LABEL=/tmp /tmp ext3 acl 1 2 > instead of > LABEL=/tmp /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2 > > Does ACL/attributes support affect filesystem performance? Is it stable? Pavel.