Re: [Bug-tar] ACL/EA support

[Joerg Schilling]

Lukasz Stelmach <address@hidden> wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> I suppose I won't be very inventive by asking a question:
> When will Gnu Tar support extended attributes? I run a samba
> server which uses them to provide "native" dos attributes I have
> to back'em up somehow and dumping them to a file is not
> TheWayILike(TM).

Use star.....

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/

But note that the implementation of "extended attributes" is currently 
Linux only and needs to be reworked in the future in order to
support a more general model (e.g. see man -s 5 attributes on Solaris).

Jörg

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