On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 09:35:47AM -0500, Guy Dallaire enlightened us:
> The network admin here would like to start using ACL's on some files (Centos
> 4.1 a read hat 4 clone, and Red Hat 4). We use amanda (with gnutar) I don't
> think gnu tar supports it (other than by using dump, which we don't want to
> do for reliability reasons)
> 
> Do you know if ACL support is planned ?
> 

Not directly. You have a couple options:

1. Dump the ACLs to a file (probably with getfattr) and back up that file.

2. Write a wrapper for gnutar that uses star, which does support some ACLs
   last I checked.

There's probably others, as well, but it's late :-)

HTH,
Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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Ohio University
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