Grant Zhang writes: > Darren J Moffat wrote: > > Backup utilities need to backup *ALL* the data and *ALL* the > > permissions. If extended attribtues are not able to be included then > > that is not *ALL* the data, if ACLs are not included then that is not > > *ALL* the permissions. > Today's Areca does not support extended attributes and ACLs. Adding > those is beyond the scope of porting though. It is up to the LSARC > members to decide whether this limitation outweighs Areca's benefits.
I disagree on multiple grounds. First, the larger effort to bring in more FOSS to Solaris is not supposed to be a dump job: it's not as simple as "make install" and then run away. It has to work right on Solaris, or there's no point to the integration, and in this case, Darren's right that it does *not* work right because it fails to support important OS features. They're not "optional." Yes, that means that porting in some things is harder than others. Yes, it means that you may need to work with the upstream or even (in some cases) fork the source to get there. That's part of building a system, rather than just dumping a bunch of binaries on a customer. Secondly, I don't think a fast-track is really the right place to deal with something that requires members to weigh in, because we don't actually vote on fast-tracks. The qualifying factors for fast-tracks are that they're obvious and non-controversial. This is neither. It needs to be derailed. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
