Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:42:55 +0100 (BST)

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> > care how fucken smart rm ever becomes, I don't want is unlinking
> > files marked immutable.
>
> What about tar though? If you must restore from a backup,
> wouldn't you want to keep the immutable bits? How would you
> copy a directory tree with ext2 attributes intact?

You fix tar (or better yet you fix cpio)

As to server side file copy that depends what NFSv4 offers the world

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