Hi,

> 
> Hi Jean-Pierre,
> 
> Marvellous! Congratulations! :))
> 
> I have only two questions for now:
> 
>  1. How well tar's --acl option can cope this way with the Windows ACLs
>     (backup/restore)?

The "Posix ACL for NTFS" is just an implementation of the Posix ACL,
not some sort of "Windows ACL for Linux".

This means "tar --acl" will deal with the Posix representation. It
will save and restore any ACL which has been set by a "setfacl", but
it will only save and restore an approximation of ACLs which were
set by Windows.

It should be adequate for saving an ext3 subdirectory and restoring it
on ntfs-3g or conversely.

If you want to save original Windows ACLs, you can use backup and
restore functions in secaudit. This will save all the Windows ACL
in a separate file which you can include into your tar file.


> 
>  2. Is there some ACL test suite(s) we could use for validation and 
>     regression testing?

I do not know of a public test suite suitable for Posix ACLs.

Note however the pjd test suite passes fully ok (which is not as
obvious as it may seem).

Regards

Jean-Pierre



-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference 
Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. 
Use priority code J8TL2D2. 
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone
_______________________________________________
ntfs-3g-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel

Reply via email to