Am Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:03:47 +0100 schrieb Orchid XP v8:

> Warp wrote:
> 
>>   I use ReiserFS for all my linux partitions.
> 
> I've not used it, but I've heard good things about it.
> 
>> Besides being journaled,
>> it's more compact than many other FSs
> 
> I doubt I'd notice the difference. Heck, I don't even notice the
> difference between ext2 and ext3...
> 
> What I would be curios to know is this. The traditional Unix file
> permissions system allows you to assign a set of permissions to the
> "owner", another set to the "group", and a third set to "everybody
> else". Is there any kind of extension that allows you to assign
> arbitrary permissions to individual users and/or groups beyond what the
> traditional system allows? (I would anticipate the Big Problem with
> attempting to do this would be that it breaks everything that expects
> the old behaviour!)

It is called "Access Control Lists" and part of POSIX. Manpage is called 
acl(5).

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