On Sunday 21 December 2008 15:52:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 13:58:24 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > > and which data is not copied? > > > > ACLs and extended attributes. Still not! The same is true for GNU tar. If > > you use ACLs or extended attributes you have to either take care of them > > separately or use star or rsync. > > > > Bye... > > > > Dirk > > ah, good to know - since I use neither, I have never run in any problems. > > btw, what are the advantages of these on a single user system?
I don't believe there are any, except perhaps some obscure edge cases[1]. Every use for ACLs and extended attributes I've ever seen reduces down to the sysadmin gaining finer control over what other people can and cannot do on his system. On a single user work-station, the user IS the sysadmin, so the point usually becomes moot. [1] For example, one might want a flag that can be set and unset on a file depending on the last action taken by some specific software. An archive attribute used by backup software would be the most well-known example. But this is certainly not the general case. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
