Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Version 0.13.0 released

[Greg Freemyer]

Ben,

For 0.13.1 testing, do you have a preference of python 2.2 vs. 2.3?

Thanks
Greg
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Greg Freemyer

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 06:41, Ben Escoto wrote:
> >From the changelog:
> 
> New in v0.13.0 (2003/07/22)
> ---------------------------
> 
> To prevent the buildup of confusing and error-prone options, the
> capabilities of the source and destination file systems are now
> autodetected.  Detected features include allowed characters, extended
> attributes, access control lists, hard links, ownership, and directory
> fsyncing.  Options such as --windows-mode, --chars-to-quote,
> --quoting-char, and --windows-restore-mode have been removed.
> 
> Now rdiff-backup supports user extended attributes (EAs).  To take
> advantage of this you will need the python module pyxattr and a file
> system that supports EAs.  Thanks to Greg Freemyer for valuable
> discussion.
> 
> Support for access control lists (ACLs) was also added.  An ACL
> capable file system and the python package pylibacl (which exports the
> posix1e module) are required.  Thanks to Greg Freemyer for valuable
> discussion.
> 
> Thanks to patches by Daniel Hazelbaker, rdiff-backup now reads and
> writes Mac OS X style resource forks!
> 
> ****** Warning ****** The above features are new to this development
> release, and it is difficult to test all the possibly combinations of
> source and destination file systems.  They should not be considered
> stable.  However, help would be appreciated testing these new
> features.
> 
> ****** Warning #2 ****** rdiff-backup records ACL and EA information
> in files designed to be compatible with the utilities "getfacl" and
> "getfattr".  However, there is a possible security hole in both these
> formats (see
> http://acl.bestbits.at/pipermail/acl-devel/2003-June/001498.html).
> rdiff-backup's format will be fixed when getf{attr|acl}'s is.
> 
> Added --list-increment-sizes switch, which tells you how much space
> the various backup files take up.  (Suggested by Andrew Bressen)
> 
> Although it should be detected automatically, can avoid copying
> permissions to directory increments with --no-change-dir-inc-perms.
> (Problem on FreeBSD when backing up sticky directories reported by
> Troels Arvin.)
> 
> Fixed bug with --check-destination and --windows-mode reported by
> Tucker Sylvestro.
> 
> The librsync blocksize is now chosen based on filesize.  This should
> make operations on large files faster (in some cases, orders of
> magnitude faster).  Thanks to Ty! Boyack for bringing this issue to my
> attention.
>