Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 17:55:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACLs [Was: C2 Trusted FreeBSD?] Message-ID: <199710231755.KAA27624@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19971023092847.TP39265@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 23, 97 09:28:47 am
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> > Yes, but how do you back them up, or, worse yet, restore them? How do > > you copy your HTML directory tree to another drive you're bringing > > on-line and preserve all the ACL settings? As noted before, *none* > > of the system tools support the ACLs. > > I think you could make compatible changes to dump and restore to > support ACLs. Perhaps, drop a second record containing the ACLs right > behind an inode record (or even before, so the restore program knows > about the intended ACLs before actually even seeing the inode > information). The unknown records should simply be ignored by a > restore that doesn't understand them. If it's a stacking layer that uses a name space excape and uses a real file in the underlying FS for the ACL's, then the answer is simple: back up the underlying FS instead of the top layer of the stack. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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