Roland Smith <rsm...@xs4all.nl> writes: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 05:22:47PM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: >> On 9 August 2010 14:00, Alexander Best <arun...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> > hi there, >> > >> > chflags(1) mentions that a few utilities including pax(1) aren't chflags >> > aware yet. is there a list of all those utilties available somewhere? > <snip> >> > in fact the pax(1) manual states that `pax -p e` will "preserve >> > everything". this is plain wrong! >> >> AFIK, pax is a POSIX thing, and as such working >> correctly or sanely would violate its posix nature. >> (POSIX is an anagram of "Pox? Si!") >> >> Is cpio chflags-aware? > > To the best of my knowledge the _only_ way to be sure you have backed up _all_ > possible features (flags, extended attributes &c) of a UFS filesystem is to > use dump(8) & restore(8).
Since when did the thread switch to UFS-specific tools? Unless I'm missing smth dump(8)/restore(8) don't work on ZFS. You can use bsdtar(1) in order to save/restore chflags, ACLs and extattrs in a FS-agnostic way. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
