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XFS merged in Linux 2.5

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the who-says-journals-are-for-girls dept.

joib writes "According to this notice, the XFS journaling file system has been merged into Linus bitkeeper tree, to show up in 2.5.36." Ya just know someone out there wants to have every journaling file system on one drive just 'cuz.

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  1. Re:Silly question by rseuhs · · Score: 5, Insightful
    XFS supports ACL's (or access control lists) which are much better than standard UNIX permissions.

    Actually I think ACLs are the reason why everybody is running as Administrator in Windows. They are just too damn complicated.

    The Unix-permissions are simple. You can understand the concept of user-group-all in a few minutes and there are only 2 commands to remember (chmod, chown).

    Also, Unix-permissions have so far fit with everything I needed and in the rare case you really need something special, there is also sudo.

    I think ACLs are only useful for a tiny minority, IMO. I certainly don't need it.