Brian Cuttler on Tue 10/05 11:18 -0400: > I'd understood that the OS native dump could handle > correctly certain types of files that tar couldn't. Not an > issue of binaries but rather other types of special files. > Is this or was this true ?
Well POSIX 1.e ACLs are one of them. Why GNU tar doesn't support ACLs when star has supported them for ages, is quite a mystery (possibly, so they don't break the tar format).
