Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:39:10 +1100
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
To: Fabio Capannini <f.capannini@cineca.it>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: disable ACLs on xfs
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 05:43:40PM +0100, Fabio Capannini wrote:
> Hi,
>   I would like to know if there is any way to disable ACLs completely on
> an xfs filesystem. I couldn't find any mount options that permits to
> accomplish this and, as far as I know, xfs support for ACLs is activated
> by default. 
> It turns out that some applications don't support xfs ACLs in a correct
> manner, so I was wondering if I could turn them off.
> 

You can switch them off when you compile your kernel, but
there isn't a mount option.  You can also just not set any
ACLs on files (setfacl/chacl) and they wont be used either,
of course.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan