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Re: ACLs

The getfacl workaround seems to work okay.  Capturing these ACLs
natively would be cleaner, but it's not a make or break.  I'll keep an
eye on future release notes.

Overall, the software is pretty awesome.  We're still putting it
through its paces here, but so far, so good.

Thanks!

-Mike

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On 12/12/13 01:51, Tim Bishop wrote:
>> I dug a little more and realised what I'd done wrong. I was using ZFS so
>> I'd used NFSv4 ACLs rather than POSIX ACLs. It looks like they're not
>> supported by tar or tarsnap yet. When I repeated the test with POSIX
>> ACLs it worked in both tar and tarsnap.
>
> Hmm!
>
>> I wonder if there's some compatibility issue between libarchive and
>> POSIX ACLs on Linux? (asked Google) Yes, there does appear to be some
>> problems there:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=993048
>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libarchive.git/commit/?id=da58d4e8afce6acca54475be528f6b948aa2951a
>>
>> Colin - do you know which version of libarchive tarsnap is based on? (I
>> am correct in my recollection that tarsnap uses libarchive, right?)
>> Although it's not immediately clear to me if that fix has been merged.
>
> Tarsnap uses quite an old libarchive -- I've been meaning to upgrade it for
> a long time (but as usual, there's always more urgent things to do...).
> I'll make a note to check on the status of POSIX ACLs when I do this.
>
> --
> Colin Percival
> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid