From: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
Subject: Re: File permissions in ext4
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:59:40 +0400
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On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 14:34 +0200, 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?
> 

Do you build the kernel with POSIX ACLs support
(CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL)?

With the best regards,
Vyacheslav Dubeyko.