On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 20:50, Eric Chen wrote:
> Hello SGI XFS development team member,
>
> I wanted to be able to integrate file copying with preserving extended
> attributes when copying to/from an XFS filesystem. I looked up different
> resources and tried out copying over the network in different ways, such as
> rcp, rsync, scp, smbfs, nfs. However, none of them support extended
> attributes, and extended attributes are lost when the file is copied over to
> the destination.
>
> I came across 'getfattr' and 'setfattr' and those 2 commands seem to
> preserve the EA if I first
>
> 'getfattr -Rd * > save_attr'
> then copy the files over
> then 'setfattr --restore=save_attr'
>
> This *seems* to work fine, but since you were listed as the author in the
> man pages, I thought you might know more about this. Ideally, I want to
> integrate file copying and preserving extended attributes, so I am
> attempting to modify the source code so that will be handled. I was hoping
> you could give me some more information, such as where I can find the code
> for 'getfattr' and 'setfattr' so I could take a look at it and get some idea
> from that. I'm not really sure where to get started, so if you have any
> suggestions or references to resources that might help me on my way, I would
> be very grateful.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
I think xfsdump/xfsrestore is the only pre-existing mechanism which
will preserve them. The cp command on Irix has been extended to copy
attributes if the -a option is specified. However, that code is not
something we can distribute, Irix cp almost certainly originated in
an AT&T code base, plus the attribute calls are different
between irix and linux.
Steve
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