[Box Backup] Extended attributes on FreeBSD

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Victor,

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Victor Meirans wrote:

> I'm doing a fresh install on FreeBSD 7.1, latest boxbackup code from 
> trunk (2448). The question is: how to enable extended attributes support 
> during configure

You will need a sys/xattr.h file, probably in /usr/include or 
/usr/local/include. I'd be quite surprised if FreeBSD didn't include that 
by default, as I gather it has better support for extended attributes than 
Linux does. In any case, if configure detects the [l]listxattr and 
[l]getxattr functions, it will use them, even if they are not defined in 
sys/xattr.h and configure reports "Extended attributes: no".

> and how crucial it is for best operation? What difference it makes going 
> with it or without?

The only difference is that any extended attributes that you have applied 
to your backed-up files (including POSIX ACLs) will not be backed up, nor 
will any extended attributes be restored from the repository.

Cheers, Chris.
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