On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 at 7:19pm, Bryan J. Smith wrote > In fact, since Red Hat insists on not supporting XFS with its > xfsdump that maintains EAs, and Ext3's dump does nothing of > the sort (and I'm not a huge fan of star), I use getfacl to > store the original ACLs with my backup in a file included > with the backup. ext3 dump does EAs now: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-359.html Of course, ext3 dump is not, IMO, anywhere near the quality of xfsdump (and ditto your comments on star), but RH now *can* claim full backup support of ext3. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University