Hello, Ok, I found that the permissions that I was looking for are stored in ext4_inode.i_mode ... but still there is the question: What is ACL used for then, and when is it different than zero? thanks =) -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html