On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 06:04:17PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> XFS/EA/ACL experts,
>
> I'm trying to test rdiff-backup (unstable) for xfs acl support.
>
> So far it is not working:
>
>
> My understanding of xfs acls is that they are implemented via EAs.
> right?
Yes, although libacl hides the user/kernel interface and
presents a (draft-POSIX-standard-compliant) ACL interface
to users which isn't aware of extended attributes.
> If so, should the python module pyxattr handle them?
I don't know what that module does.
> Or does rdiff-backup need to explicitely support EAs and ACLs
> seperately?
You probably want to have a look into the work Andreas did in
getting the cp/ls/... tools (now called "coreutils" I think) to
work with ACLs and extended attributes, and start from there.
cheers.
> FYI, I'm trying:
> rdiff-backup 0.13.1
> librsync 0.9.6 (including devel)
> pyxattr 0.2
> xfs 1.2
> libattr-2.4.0 (including devel)
> libacl-2.2.6 (including devel)
>
> Thanks
> Greg
> --
> Greg Freemyer
>
>
--
Nathan
|