On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 17:39 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Sunday, September 19, 2004 7:20 PM -0400 Colin Walters walters@redhat.com wrote:
One particular feature that I absolutely need is xattr support, because all my machines run SELinux. My personal server also uses ACLs for a few files.
Are these all features of ext3? If so, wouldn't dump do the job?
Well, it's not quite the same thing. You can't safely dump a live filesystem, making it unusable for me. Also it's far less granular than an archiver like tar or dar.