On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:06:11 +0200 Lionel Cons wrote: > On 25 September 2013 18:56, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:52:00 +0200 Lionel Cons wrote: > >> Glenn, how hard is it to add the tar extensions described in the > >> Solaris fsattr(5) > >> [http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-5175/6mbba7f02/index.html] > >> manual page so that pax -@ includes the XATTR files on archive > >> creation and restores them on archive unpacking? > > > > thanks for the ref > > I'll look into it
> Thanks > As crazy as XATTR files first sound the merit of having 'context > files' associated with a file or directory and having the crap cleaned > up automatically if such files or directories are rm'ed has caused a > frenzy of ideas among my staff. Now the challenge is on my side: Find > backup solutions (Solaris and Illumos tar and pax do well, but I like > to be crossplatform) and find good arguments against the most whacked > usages. the concept of XATTR files is great its the implementation that gets me twisted a bit having a target pax format is a first step and with /dev/file/xattr@... already in place I can add it to pax with no #ifdefs without looking at code it shouldn;t be too bad _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
