Re: ACL support via NFS

[Marco De Vitis <starless@spin.it>]

On 09/03/2007 15:20, Stephan Seitz wrote:

> Hm, from my kernel config (2.6.20.1):
>
> CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL:
> Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX
> Access Control Lists.  The server should also be compiled with
> the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL option.
>
> So it may work with current kernels.

Indeed, it looks active in the config for Etch's 2.6.18-4-686 kernel I'm 
using. But I can't see how to make it work.

> You could copy the archive on the fly, like
>
> tar cpSf - . | ssh <remote> 'cd <target>; tar xpSf - '
>
> I don’t know, if tar supports ACLs.

Unfortunately, it doesn't :(.

I also tried rsync, but again no ACLs were preserved.

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Ciao,
  Marco.