Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes

[Andrew Suffield]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:20:34PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> 
>     > From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>
>     > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:11:30AM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
>     > >     > From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>
>     > >     > Note that tools such as cp(1) and mv(1) have the expected
>     > >     > behaviour for all of [linux filesystems having extended
>     > >     > attributes].
> 
>     > No, for all the ACL-like schemes.
> 
> 
> Well, now you just seem to be contradicting yourself so I'm not sure
> what you're trying to say.

Repeating my earlier mail with the bit you got confused adjusted in []:

To throw a little more context out there, linux currently has at least
three different ACL-like systems supported by several different
filesystems, and all of them store their data in EAs. Get the point
yet? Note that tools such as cp(1) and mv(1) have the expected
behaviour for all of [the ACL-like schemes].

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