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Re: Is gnu tar as safe as dump ?
2005-05-10 14:20:08
Brian Cuttler on Tue 10/05 11:18 -0400:
> I'd understood that the OS native dump could handle
> correctly certain types of files that tar couldn't. Not an
> issue of binaries but rather other types of special files.
> Is this or was this true ?
Well POSIX 1.e ACLs are one of them.
Why GNU tar doesn't support ACLs when star has supported
them for ages, is quite a mystery (possibly, so they don't
break the tar format).
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