On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 03:05:35PM +0100, Michael Reifenberger wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Geoffrey Giesemann wrote: > ... > >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? > According to the only cvs entry I can find that mentions it [1], extended attribute support has been TODO for over 3 years :D [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/dump/main.c#rev1.37 In the meanwhile you can convert your UFS2 volumes to XFS and back them up the extended attributes with xfsdump!!!! [2] [2] http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#backingupxfs I had a vague recollection pax might've been able to back up extended attributes, but the specifications at [3] only hint at there being scope for extended attributes as an 'implementation extension'. [3] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/pax.html#tag_04_100_13_03 --GeoffReceived on Wed Feb 15 2006 - 15:37:42 UTC
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