On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Just in case someone knows, does star preserve capabilities, I'm under > the impression it does a better job on ACLs and other file system > flags than tar? > After a bit of digging : - Fedora and Redhat have a patched gnu tar with xattr support (which should be similar to star according to [1]) - bsdtar has official xattr support. This works fine, except for the special security.capability attribute, because bsdtar sets the extended attributes before writing the file (because of the information from [1]) and not after. And afaik security.capability is the only one which get lost after file modification (for security purpose). Anyway I contacted libarchive author about this problem so it should be fixed in the next (major?) release. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar@xxxxxxx/msg02053.html
