dumping acl's

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Fri Nov 26 11:30:58 EST 2004


Thanks for the info, I've been looking into the same stuff, star, other 
dump options, etc.  I'll just have to keep pokin and prodin. Never used 
xfs before, anything I should know about that versus ext2/3?

deadpoint wrote:

> the easiest way to do this on linux is to use XFS on the filesystems 
> where you want to use acls. support for acls is built into xfsdump and 
> xfsrestore. another option is to use the 'star' archiving program, 
> it's a version of tar which supports acls. star is included with suse 
> but i'm not sure about FC.
>
> for a really good primer the guys at suse put together this, 
> http://www.suse.de/~agruen/acl/linux-acls/online/, it's very informative.
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
>
>> I understand that part, how do you play that in a dump/restore scenario?
>>
>> deadpoint wrote:
>>
>>> if you're talking about filesystem acl's you use getfacl to get them 
>>> and setfacl to set them.
>>>
>>> Cyber Source wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello All,
>>>>  Happy T-Day!
>>>>  Does anyone have a clue as to how to dump acl's? Does SElinux need 
>>>> to be turned off prior? Thanks
>>>>
>>



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