[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI_151a7 install grumble

[Jim Klimov]

On 2013-02-01 16:59, James Relph wrote:
>> However, in case that your filesystems for some reason rely on ACLs
>> and extended attributes (not so for the default installation) you
>> might have to use the Sun tar or cpio (not the GNU variants).
>
> For what it's worth you can build the 3.0.10-dev versions of rsync with Solaris xattr and ACL support, whic seems to work  well.  We actually did tests syncing files with extended attributes from OS X to Oi 151 and even that worked (the OS X xattrs were stored as ZFS xattrs as well).  Quite neat really.

Cool, I'll see if this best of both worlds works for us.
I thought they'd never implement it, having been discussed and requested
to death for about a decade ;)

Thanks for heads-up,
//Jim