Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 03:26:38 +0200 (CEST)
From: Andreas Gruenbacher <ag@bestbits.at>
To: acl-devel@bestbits.at
Subject: [ACL-Devel] Approaching 0.7.0

Dear all,

We are approaching stability with the extended attribute block sharing
code. As long as no stability problems are encountered, the only things to
do are updates to the documentation, and porting the kernel patch to
2.4.0-test9. This should be finished this week. I will then make this the
next stable version, and update the Web site.

Everybody is encouraged to try out the latest version (0.7.0pre14 as of
this writing) and help with testing.

The updated kernel and e2fsck patches are in
<http://acl.bestbits.at/pre/>. The acl package in that directory contains
only a few changes in the documentation. The other packages did not change
relative to the latest stable version.

The linux 2.2.17 patch also includes a fix for the NFSv2 problem described
on the Web site. When files are exported over NFSv2, the file permission
bits are adjusted so that the NFS client never grants any user access that
is not also granted by the server. Additional permissions defined in ACLs
are not available on NFSv2 mounts (this is impossible due to the NFSv2
protocol). I think NFSv3 fixes that, although I did not find the tiem to
try that.


Regards,
Andreas

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