RE: [Openxdsm-devel] Re: [PROPOSAL] Extended attributes for Posix security extensions

[Peter J. Braam]

So what about "tar"?

Stephen has been banging the drum about a unified API for ACL's and I think
good things came out of that discussion.

Building an archive of a file system with ACL's or other EA's and untarring
it on a different file system/system is at present a mess and quite
dangerous.

I think DEC had a clever way of dealing with it, it put a file twice in the
tar archive, the first time it held the content of the ACL, the second time
the name appeared it held the content of the file.  So unless tar crashed in
the middle, you'd get a somewhat sensible unpacking behaviour.

I think that a families approach will give us the best chances of converting
many different EA's sensibly from one file system to another when we tar it
up and unpack it again.

Comments anyone?

- Peter -


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