[rdiff-backup-users] Version 0.13.0 released

[Ben Escoto]

>From the changelog:

New in v0.13.0 (2003/07/22)
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To prevent the buildup of confusing and error-prone options, the
capabilities of the source and destination file systems are now
autodetected.  Detected features include allowed characters, extended
attributes, access control lists, hard links, ownership, and directory
fsyncing.  Options such as --windows-mode, --chars-to-quote,
--quoting-char, and --windows-restore-mode have been removed.

Now rdiff-backup supports user extended attributes (EAs).  To take
advantage of this you will need the python module pyxattr and a file
system that supports EAs.  Thanks to Greg Freemyer for valuable
discussion.

Support for access control lists (ACLs) was also added.  An ACL
capable file system and the python package pylibacl (which exports the
posix1e module) are required.  Thanks to Greg Freemyer for valuable
discussion.

Thanks to patches by Daniel Hazelbaker, rdiff-backup now reads and
writes Mac OS X style resource forks!

****** Warning ****** The above features are new to this development
release, and it is difficult to test all the possibly combinations of
source and destination file systems.  They should not be considered
stable.  However, help would be appreciated testing these new
features.

****** Warning #2 ****** rdiff-backup records ACL and EA information
in files designed to be compatible with the utilities "getfacl" and
"getfattr".  However, there is a possible security hole in both these
formats (see
http://acl.bestbits.at/pipermail/acl-devel/2003-June/001498.html).
rdiff-backup's format will be fixed when getf{attr|acl}'s is.

Added --list-increment-sizes switch, which tells you how much space
the various backup files take up.  (Suggested by Andrew Bressen)

Although it should be detected automatically, can avoid copying
permissions to directory increments with --no-change-dir-inc-perms.
(Problem on FreeBSD when backing up sticky directories reported by
Troels Arvin.)

Fixed bug with --check-destination and --windows-mode reported by
Tucker Sylvestro.

The librsync blocksize is now chosen based on filesize.  This should
make operations on large files faster (in some cases, orders of
magnitude faster).  Thanks to Ty! Boyack for bringing this issue to my
attention.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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