Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:59:50 +0400 From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chflags(1) unaware utilties Message-ID: <86wrryt9gp.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100810213211.GA61196@slackbox.erewhon.net> (Roland Smith's message of "Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:32:11 %2B0200") References: <20100809180022.GA33596@freebsd.org> <AANLkTim6rgxQ_FCeOt%2BFnjmqbDLsd1=vC5za74RwhtgB@mail.gmail.com> <20100810213211.GA61196@slackbox.erewhon.net>
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Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> writes: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 05:22:47PM -0400, illoai@gmail.com wrote: >> On 9 August 2010 14:00, Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote: >> > hi there, >> > >> > chflags(1) mentions that a few utilities including pax(1) aren't chflags >> > aware yet. is there a list of all those utilties available somewhere? > <snip> >> > in fact the pax(1) manual states that `pax -p e` will "preserve >> > everything". this is plain wrong! >> >> AFIK, pax is a POSIX thing, and as such working >> correctly or sanely would violate its posix nature. >> (POSIX is an anagram of "Pox? Si!") >> >> Is cpio chflags-aware? > > To the best of my knowledge the _only_ way to be sure you have backed up _all_ > possible features (flags, extended attributes &c) of a UFS filesystem is to > use dump(8) & restore(8). Since when did the thread switch to UFS-specific tools? Unless I'm missing smth dump(8)/restore(8) don't work on ZFS. You can use bsdtar(1) in order to save/restore chflags, ACLs and extattrs in a FS-agnostic way.
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