[KLUG Members] Re: Mapping Windows ACLs to UNIX ACLs -- Ext2/3 and XFS ACLs are converging

[Bryan J. Smith]

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On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 09:42, adam@morrison-ind.com wrote:
> RedHat 8.0 support ACLs by default.

I thought it was in the kernel, but I wasn't sure if it was enabled.

> But setting ACLs doesn't seem to work -

Hmmm ...

> so cp -p... etc... should preserve ACLs as well as the crappy
> old permission bits.

That's right.  RedHat has modified binutils (is it?) to support ACLs.

> The getfacl and setfacl support backing up and restoring a filesystems AC=
Ls

Er, yes, but what backup programs use them?  I know GNU tar does _not_,
but I think star does (hence why RedHat now prefers it).  Does standard
"dump" support them for Ext2/3?  I know "xfsdump" does for XFS.

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