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). Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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