[ale] dump and ACL's

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 04:28 -0400, Chris Ricker wrote:

> 
> older dumps don't support ACLs / EAs
> 
> options:
> 
> 1. use old dump + restorecon afterward (works if you don't mind the 
> errors, and don't customize)
> 
> 2. use beta dump with support for EAs

OK. I'll dig it up and see if it will back port (?) to RH4/Centos4
> 
> Fedora Core 3 updates and 4 when it ships have the new dump with EA 
> support. RHEL 3 and 4 doesn't yet since it's fairly beta. If it's 
> important to you to have it supported for RHEL, harass your support 
> critter (not an option with Centos, but you get what you pay for ;-) about 
> getting it updated in the next quarterly update. If you don't care about 
> support, just use the beta one from Fedora or build your own from 
> sourceforge....

<rant> seems like a shot in the foot to ship an enterprise product
without a working backup and restore procedure for complete replacement
of the filesystem.</rant>
> 
> > How does tar handle this? (I don't think it does ACL inode data either)
> 
> it doesn't, but star does

Hmm. Looking for star on Centos4 and not finding it. see rant above.
> 
> later,
> chris
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