On Thursday 26 August 2004 20:17, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > Because without kernel support there is no way someone can > > publish a new metadata type and have it automatically supported > > by all application data files (ie. most apps ignore it, and only > > apps that are aware of it can see it). > > So your backup software ignores it, and after a restore you've > lost your new metadata ?
I think there's no easy way to fix this, except fixing the backup software to support xattrs's/streams/forks/whatever. Even on Windows, it has happened this way with older apps that don't support named streams.
