Alain Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > why not take the opportunity to fix some of the other 'issues' with > the cpio format - things that would help greatly at making it a true > file system backup program; eg try to backup extended attributes, > ACLs, ...
For as long as these can be fixed... Cpio header is standartized and inviting our own "extensions" will make GNU cpio incompatible with both the standard and other implementations, which is what I want to avoid. As for storing any additional data, like ACLs, usernames/groups files access time etc, I believe that cpio header is not the right place for this. This problem has already been solved by specification of PAX interchange formats in POSIX standard. By the way GNU tar already fully supports it. > * There needs to be a distinction between the cpio header that is in > memory You are absolutely right and that is what I want to avoid. Unfortunately fixing this is not far from rewriting cpio from scratch. Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Bug-cpio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cpio
