Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com> wrote: > > Sun's tar also writes ACLs in a way that is 100% non-portable. Star cannot > > understand them and probably never will be able to understand this format > > as it > > is not well defined for a portable program like star. > > > > > Is that because they are NFSv4 ACLs? tar uses the formatting routines > from libacl to archive them.
The correct way to archivbe ACLs would be to put them into extended POSIX tar attrubutes as star does. See http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/man/star/star.4.html for a format documentation or have a look at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha, e.g. ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/acl-test.tar.gz The ACL format used by Sun is undocumented...... Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
