Thanks Buchan for the update. As you are aware I am a Mandrake user so that information is very important. Message: 6 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:43:38 +0200 From: Buchan Milne <bgmilne@cae.co.za> To: jlittle@computercentral-1.com Cc: David Brodbeck <DavidB@mail.interclean.com>, samba@lists.samba.org Subject: RE: [Samba] Samba & journaled file systems -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It is still valid for a default installation of Mandrake Linux (8.1 or 8.2), since Mandrake's kernel does not support the bestbits patches, although that should be possible in the near future with the merging of the ACL code. I believe the latest devel kernels may have this. So, in the context of the rest of the article (choosing a FS during installation), it is correct. Buchan | Message: 9 | From: David Brodbeck <DavidB@mail.interclean.com> | To: "'jlittle@computercentral-1.com'" <jlittle@computercentral-1.com>, | samba@lists.samba.org | Subject: RE: [Samba] Samba & journaled file systems | Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 08:50:12 -0500 | | No, there's Posix ACL support for ext3fs now, too. In fact, the xfs and | ext3 tools are merging. See: | http://acl.bestbits.at/ | | I'm not currently using ext3 with ACLs, but I am using ext2 with them, and | the two filesystems are so similar I wouldn't expect any problems. | ====Thanks, John Little Happiness is understanding how things work. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/