> Another scheme is to save a list of files and their ACL information,
> including user names and the cell name, in an additional file on the tar
> set, and provide an AFS utility to process that file after it has been
> unpacked on an AFS system. On a non-AFS system there would just be that
> (probably useless) file, which the receiving user would have to delete.
i believe apollo domain systems did something like this. as i recall,
if you extracted the file into a 4.2 ufs, the acl's were stored in
a junk file you could delete or ignore. if extracted into a domain
fs, it used the information in the file to assign the appropriate acls.
this is a reasonable compromise that preserves portability.
bruce
