On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 08:40 -0800, Ed Swierk wrote: > On 1/4/08, Tomasz Torcz <tomek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > tar with "--xattrs"? > > No, I didn't realize --xattrs existed; the tar info page doesn't > mention it. Oh, there it is in the man page. If I do "info tar" on Fed-8 the second hit for a search on "selinux" gives the --selinux option and the --xattrs option is visible just below it (--xattrs includes --selinux). > Is there some reason why storing extended attributes by default would > be undesirable? I normally expect tar to carry all relevant metadata > with it; that's sort of the point of using tar. Well we didn't want to do this until the patch for xattrs/ACLs/SELinux is upstream as it changes the default tar format and GNU tars without the patch will display a bunch of annoying warnings. Esp. given how much tar is used to distribute software, where perms/xattrs aren't really wanted. -- James Antill <james.antill@xxxxxxxxxx> Red Hat
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