On 8/1/13 7:34 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > 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 =) > It is the block number containing an extended attribute for that inode, if any; that extended attribute may be a file ACL. It's a bit odd to call the xattr block "ACL" but it is what it is. ;) -Eric -- 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