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Dumping ground for notes on supporting filesystem capabilities.

• "cp -a" works
• "rsync -AXa" works
• cpio fails
• tar fails

  • http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=254615

  • http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=451932

    • http://old.nabble.com/patches-for-acl%2C-xattrs%2C-and-selinux-support-ts21075155.html

• NFS does not support xattr (patches for NFSv3 exist: http://marc.info/?l=linux-security-module&m=126804495005609&w=2)

• libcap2's pam_cap is not designed for least-privilege, has unexpected parsing results