On Jan 15, 2014, at 9:11 PM, Tim Kientzle <tim_at_kientzle.com> wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2014, at 6:47 AM, Mark Felder <feld_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > >> I was recently talking to someone about how one would backup / restore >> ACLs reliably. I didn't see any mention of ACLs in the mtree man page >> and after a quick google I came upon this old mailing list post: >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-April/024173.html >> >> patch in list is here: http://heka.cenkes.org/sat/diffs/mtree_acl.diff >> I've mirrored it here: https://feld.me/freebsd/mtree_acl.diff >> >> This old patch appears to still apply cleanly. I hate to see a patch die >> and be forgotten. > > One problem that ‘tar’ has addressed (inspired by Joerg Schilling’s > work on star) is to permit ACLs to be restored even if the user database > is out of date. > > This is done by including a fourth field in each ACE with the > numeric user ID. > > I suspect you want to do the same for mtree. I thought > I remembered acl_to_text having an option to use > an extended text format, so it might be a trivial change. Also, comparing ACLs using strcmp() seems a little odd to me. TimReceived on Thu Jan 16 2014 - 04:13:49 UTC
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