Starting Point.

[Wade Klaver]

So, once I newfs with UFS2, am I correct in understanding that I can remove 
the UFS_EXTATTR_AUTOSTART and UFS_EXTATTR options from my kernel?  Do they 
have any function beyond ACL support for UFS1?
Your prediction regarding the 5.0 install was correct, by the way.
 -Wade

On May 6, 2004 10:56, Robert Watson wrote:
>
> You can actually use ACLs with UFS1, but the configuration process is
> quite a bit more complex, and also it is less reliable in the presence of
> a crash or file system damage.  You can find instructions for doing this
> in the FreeBSD kernel source tree in the following two files:
>
>   src/sys/ufs/ufs/README.extattr
>   src/sys/ufs/ufs/README.acls
>
> This model for configuration extended attributes and ACLs is not
> documented in the handbook, etc, because it's really not the preferred way
> to do it.  I would recommend updating to ufs2.  Unfortunately, the update
> mechanism is a little less than user friendly: you basically have to
> backup, newfs, and restore.  My suspicion is that you installed 5.x on the
> box originally with 5.0, which wasn't able to boot from UFS2, so would
> create the root file system as UFS1?
>
> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
> robert at fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research
>

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Wade Klaver
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