Any progress on this issue? I've noted some patches were already available but were not applied up to now. (see http://old.nabble.com/patches-for-acl%2C-xattrs%2C-and-selinux-support-ts21075155.html )
Missing xattr support in Debian's tar gets more and more annoying now that ext4 supports xattrs "out of the box". I just fell into this trap since i tried to recover a samba server - which stored Windows group information in xattrs - which is gone now :( ... Regards, Peter
