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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
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
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