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[Robert Watson]

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Wade Klaver wrote:

> 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? 

That is correct: those options only apply to UFS1, and if you have no UFS1
file systems where you are using extended attributes, they are not
required.

> Your prediction regarding the 5.0 install was correct, by the way. 

One of the perils of being an early adopter, I'm afraid...  But that said,
early adopters go much appreciated around here and we encourage you to do
it more :-). 

Thanks,

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research


>  -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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