Re: Where is ACL information stored with XFS?

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 21:26 29-7-2001 +0930, Mark Bradbury wrote:
> Yes I would also like to know
> dump and restore are OK for small systems

use xfsdump and xfsrestore instead.

> but what about a 1 TB system
> SGI have been using this filesystem for a while so there must be a
> better solution.

I don't see how. If you have a tape that contains your data you can just 
restore it.
You might be interested in checking out amanda as a frontend for restoring 
files and xfsdump and xfsrestore for the backend.

> We have just had to restore 100GB of files after a (2)discs failed on us
> this was with a ext2 filesystem

?

> If we had XSF and samba 2.2.1a how would we restore the ACL's ?

Using xfsrestore ofcourse :-)
the xfs dump/restore utilities know about acls and extended attrributes so 
they will happily back them up.

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.