Are ACL's in ext3 and GFS/GFS2 POSIX-compliant?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, 5, 6

Issue

  • Are Access Control Lists(ACL) in ext3 and GFS/GFS2 POSIX-compliant?

Resolution

Access Control Lists (ACL) are extended attributes to setup advanced permissions in filesystems. Portable Operating System for UnIX (POSIX) is a collection of standards for unified semantics and interfaces to system services performed by the operating system

Both ext3 and GFS use the built-in Linux kernel infrastructure to manage Access Control Lists (ACL) which is completely POSIX compliant.

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