Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Errors between rdiff-backup and NTFS-3G 2009.2.1?

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Feb 26, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> Stable NTFS-3G (not the Advanced one which has full user ownership,
> permission, ACL, etc handling) supports only the User namespace EAs.
> ACLs are using EAs in the System namespace. This is why --no-acls
> works.

And it is interesting that rdiff-backup didn't detect the need for -- 
no-acls automatically, but that is because the ACL test is read-only.  
It simply requests the ACL from the filesystem, and apparently that  
didn't raise an IOError when the underlying FS was NTFS-3G 2009.2.1.

> --no-eas failing is somehow unexpected from rdiff-backup unless it
> means "all EAs except ACLs", i.e. "ignore all EAs except ACL EAs".

Yes, that is what it means. It treats non-ACL EAs as separate from ACL  
EAs.


Andrew