Hi all, On 12/12/13 01:51, Tim Bishop wrote: > I dug a little more and realised what I'd done wrong. I was using ZFS so > I'd used NFSv4 ACLs rather than POSIX ACLs. It looks like they're not > supported by tar or tarsnap yet. When I repeated the test with POSIX > ACLs it worked in both tar and tarsnap.
Hmm! > I wonder if there's some compatibility issue between libarchive and > POSIX ACLs on Linux? (asked Google) Yes, there does appear to be some > problems there: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=993048 > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libarchive.git/commit/?id=da58d4e8afce6acca54475be528f6b948aa2951a > > Colin - do you know which version of libarchive tarsnap is based on? (I > am correct in my recollection that tarsnap uses libarchive, right?) > Although it's not immediately clear to me if that fix has been merged. Tarsnap uses quite an old libarchive -- I've been meaning to upgrade it for a long time (but as usual, there's always more urgent things to do...). I'll make a note to check on the status of POSIX ACLs when I do this. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
