Hi Jean-Pierre,
On Fri, 2 May 2008, Jean-Pierre ANDRE wrote:
> > 1. How well tar's --acl option can cope this way with the Windows ACLs
> > (backup/restore)?
>
> The "Posix ACL for NTFS" is just an implementation of the Posix ACL,
> not some sort of "Windows ACL for Linux".
>
> This means "tar --acl" will deal with the Posix representation. It
> will save and restore any ACL which has been set by a "setfacl", but
> it will only save and restore an approximation of ACLs which were
> set by Windows.
This sounds good.
What I really meant is how relevant is the loss? It's said that Windows
ACLs are overcomplicated and not many people use them in their full
capacity. If most of the loss is the non-used settings then practically
it could mean that there is no serious loss.
Of course it's much wiser to do a proper backup but some people love
experimenting or incorrectly think these things would work.
> It should be adequate for saving an ext3 subdirectory and restoring
> it on ntfs-3g or conversely.
This is very cool! :-) NTFS is getting to be popular on backup devices
because it can be read/write by most OSes and do not have the FAT limits.
> If you want to save original Windows ACLs, you can use backup and
> restore functions in secaudit. This will save all the Windows ACL
> in a separate file which you can include into your tar file.
I wasn't aware of it, thanks for the tip!
> > 2. Is there some ACL test suite(s) we could use for validation and
> > regression testing?
>
> I do not know of a public test suite suitable for Posix ACLs.
>
> Note however the pjd test suite passes fully ok (which is not as
> obvious as it may seem).
Nice work! :-)
Regards,
Szaka
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