On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 17:39 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Sunday, September 19, 2004 7:20 PM -0400 Colin Walters
<walters(a)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.