> How about Linux extended attributes (used by SELinux for example). > And I guess ACLs could be saved as such metadata, too?
Great minds think alike...8-) A Unix stat structure is fundamentally just a bunch of metadata about an inode or chain of inodes. It probably makes sense to keep the name and size separate, but everything else could be moved to a attribute-list structure that would support structured files (ie, record oriented files), security assertions, ACLs, etc. That would remove a lot of the difficulty in adding new system types to Bacula. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
