Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: > On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 13:58:24 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: >>> and which data is not copied? >> ACLs and extended attributes. Still not! The same is true for GNU tar. If >> you use ACLs or extended attributes you have to either take care of them >> separately or use star or rsync. >> >> Bye... >> >> Dirk > > ah, good to know - since I use neither, I have never run in any problems. > > btw, what are the advantages of these on a single user system? > >
The only (more or less common) software I know which states that it runs better with extended attributes is Beagle. There ought to be some performance benefits but I've never verified it.
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