FC3 dump/restore

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Tue Feb 22 03:51:08 UTC 2005


On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:25:26 EST, "Chuck R. Anderson" said:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 08:59:27PM -0500, Mike Carifio wrote:
> > If I dump an ext3 file system for backup, will the file security 
> > attributes get saved?
> > Will they by restored by /restore? /Pl. advise. Thanks.
> 
> SELinux attributes are stored as Extended Attributes (EA).  It appears
> that an FC3 update to dump added support for these:
> 
> * Mon Jan 31 2005 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> 0.4b39-1.FC3
> 
> - Updated to dump-0.4b39.
> - Add patch for EA/ACL support.

Might be a bit half-baked still - just a few minutes before seeing this,
I opened a bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=149299

(Note - this is dump-0.4b39-1 in the Fedora -devel tree, and the changelog
differs from your -1.FC3)
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