Musings on ZFS Backup strategies

Ben Morrow ben at morrow.me.uk
Sat Mar 2 02:15:05 UTC 2013


Quoth David Magda <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca>:
> On Mar 1, 2013, at 15:39, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, kpneal at pobox.com wrote:
> > 
> >> What about extended attributes? ACLs? Are those saved by tar?
> > 
> > I think tar (as root or -p) will attempt to preserve those.
> 
> Specifically bsdtar (with libarchive) and star:
> 
> https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/TarPosix1eACLs

But since ZFS doesn't support POSIX.1e ACLs that's not terribly
useful... I don't believe bsdtar/libarchive supports NFSv4 ACLs yet.

Ben



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