Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 20:52:44 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> To: Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com> Cc: Freebsd hackers list <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com> Subject: Re: O_XATTR support in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <706707CA-BD52-4814-BCCE-EB044B062BA6@kientzle.com> In-Reply-To: <CALXu0UfEQD2y6m5irGQRms=6bY8H854v0Wu9_96JpL4w6wntcg@mail.gmail.com> References: <BC41DB59-5868-432D-9452-00F420934E12@mail.turbofuzz.com> <718836647.19911209.1385302696963.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca> <CALXu0UfEQD2y6m5irGQRms=6bY8H854v0Wu9_96JpL4w6wntcg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Nov 26, 2013, at 1:51 AM, Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com> = wrote: > 5. Support for tar and pax is already there. Its described in > Solaris's fsattr man page, they use a extended header with filename > /dev/null (to prevent older tar versions from tripping over the new > headers) and then have a named attribute header which describes the > attributes names and flags. There are quite a few alternative approaches for storing extended attributes in tar and pax files. I=92ve documented several at: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/TarExtendedAttributes If you have documentation for variations that aren=92t explained there, please let me know. Small sample tar or pax files that can be evaluated are greatly appreciated. Cheers, Tim
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