Re: rdiff-backup / EAs / ACLs

[Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>]

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