From 97bcf138be6c110438a84d791df1a6d06f768c4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:47:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Improved a couple entries. --- NEWS | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e3b11041..266d68e9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -102,17 +102,19 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: - Added the --acls (-A) option to preserve Access Control Lists. This is an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even - supports OS X ACLs. (If you need to have backward compatibility with - old, patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches - dir.) + supports OS X ACLs. If you need to have backward compatibility with old, + acl-patched versions of rsync, apply the acls.diff file from the patches + dir. - Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserver extended attributes. This is - an improved version of the prior patch that was available. (If you need - to have backward compatibility with old, patched versions of rsync, apply - the xattrs.diff file from the patches dir.) + an improved version of the prior patch that was available, and it even + supports OS X xattrs (which includes their resource fork data). If you + need to have backward compatibility with old, xattr-patched versions of + rsync, apply the xattrs.diff file from the patches dir. - Added the --fake-super option that allows a non-super user to preserve all attributes of a file by using a special extended-attribute idiom. + It even supports the storing of foreign ACL data on your backup server. There is also an analogous "fake super" option for an rsync daemon. - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from -- 2.34.1