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From: Michael Reifenberger <mike@Reifenberger.com>
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Subject: Re: Extended Attributes API
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Geoffrey Giesemann wrote:
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> The FreeBSD calls to get/set/list extended attributes differ from those
> in Linux:

This reminds me of something related:

What is the "official" way of backing up UFS[2] filesystems
containing extended attributes?
In former time dump(8) and restore(8) where the tools of choice.
But do they deal with extended attributes?

Bye/2
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