Re: Request for advise with struct stat, ACL, xattr, zlib

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Petr Salinger wrote:
> Please note that
>  libisofs/builder.c:209: warning: passing
>  argument 2 of 'aaip_cleanout_st_mode' from
>  incompatible pointer type
> is not problem in your code. Your code only detected
> problem in our code ;-)

I understand the warning is harmless for little
endian systems and that there are no big endian
kfreebsd systems yet.

(I googled for the reason and history of the
 32 bit field. Dragonfly ancestry ?)

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Meanwhile i have the opportunity to test on
a FreeBSD 8.0 system.
This rises some questions about kfreebsd
defaults:

- Is kernel module atapicam enabled by default ?
  It allows to use ATAPI CD ROM drives via
  SCSI/MMC commands. A bit similar to Linux
  ide-scsi which we used on 2.4 for IDE drives.
  Other than on Linux, the modern SATA drives
  appear as ATAPI devices under FreeBSD 8.0.
  atapicam makes the situations on Linux and
  FreeBSD much more similar. None of the usual
  open source burn programs works without
  atapicam.

- Are ACL enabled for individual filesystems by
  default ?
  On the FreeBSD system there is ACL support in
  the OS but the API calls return EOPNOTSUPP
  which means that the filesystem instance does
  not allow ACL.
  This might make it cumbersome to restore data
  backups from Linux filesystems to FreeBSD 
  filesystems.
  (I will have to learn how to enable ACL.)


Have a nice day :)

Thomas