Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> Currently you lose your "normal" file attributes (ie. the
> ownership info and permission bits) when you transfer a
> file over http.
>
> Why would this be any different with extended attributes?
It shouldn't. HTTP, etc. will transfer
the default stream only.
> When you _do_ want to have these things transferred, you can
> use a modified tar (or cpio or pax) archive format. Just like
> the "standard tar" stores the normal unix attributes, it should
> store the extended attributes.
Yes.
> And when we're talking about a "multistream file", just give the
> user the whole directory in one .tar file...
Interesting idea -- an option on pax to
unravel a streamed file into a directory
structure on FSes that do not support
streams. So "foo.txt:default" would become
"foo.txt/foo.txt". On a streams-capable
FS, it would simply restore the file with
streams intact, so "foo.txt" is what you
expect. And if you don't want streams
restored on non-streams FSes, then it simply
discards them.
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