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Filesystem capabilities in Fedora 10

Filesystem capabilities in Fedora 10

Posted Jan 8, 2009 10:52 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
Parent article: Filesystem capabilities in Fedora 10

So, what changed recently that finally made capabilities usable?


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Filesystem capabilities in Fedora 10

Posted Jan 8, 2009 14:29 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Perhaps more importantly, could somebody enlighten us on why the POSIX proposed standard was withdrawn? Known flaws, need more work than available hands, ...?

Filesystem capabilities in Fedora 10

Posted Jan 8, 2009 14:31 UTC (Thu) by kilpatds (subscriber, #29339) [Link]

Storing them on disk as part of an extended attribute, and then setting up the kernel to actually use the relevant extended attribute on disk.

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