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From: komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Mark Komarinski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem
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Date: 18 Mar 1996 18:25:13 GMT
Organization: Clarkson University
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Pyramids-R-Us (ges@EARTH.baylor.edu) wrote:
: In article <4if9gb$4kh@park.uvsc.edu>,
: Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:

: >8)	ACL's (Access Control Lists), ala VMS, to allow finer
: >	graing control over file access, beyond simple "groups"
: >	or "exclusion groups".

: The ext2 filesystem already has feilds for this.  unfortuatly they
: aren't used yet

Last I heard, there were hooks in ext2fs for file-by-file compression as well.
And undelete (or was it protection from deletion?) functionality as well.

Neither are being used (currently)

-Mark

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