Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:08:16 -0600 (CST)
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
To: Ben Bucksch <ben.bucksch.news@beonex.com>
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Subject: Re: Copy with extended attributes
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There are versions of fileutils which include acl/attr support - 
see http://acl.bestbits.at/

Some distros include this, I know that RH 8.0's fileutils
includes acl support.

"star" is an archiving tool with acl support - rh 8.0 has this as well.

Not sure about nautilus.

-Eric

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Ben Bucksch wrote:

> I am using user-space extended attributes for my own bookkeeping of 
> files, so they contain important information. I'd now like to copy those 
> files, incl. ext attributes, but I don't see how that could be done 
> easily. I guess I could use xfsdump/restore, but that seems like total 
> overkill, because they are designed to backup a whole filesystem, not to 
> copy a single file or directory (recursively). I am merely looking for a 
> cp that also copies ext attributes, preferably the standard cp with a 
> special flag or alternatively a XFS-specific workalike (xfs_cp or 
> whatever). I didn't find anything in the FAQ, manpages or on the web. 
> Does something like that exist? Any solution apart from a long and 
> strange xfsdump/restore invokation?
> 
> All I found were an appearantly custom implementation of cp 
> <http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?cp+1> and that of Solaris 
> <http://www.netsys.com/cgi-bin/solaris9?cp(1)>.
> 
> BTW: Extended attributes could prove very useful (compare BeOS' usage of 
> them), but that would need integration into standard tools like ls, cp, 
> find, tar, up to Nautilus / Konqueror (I already filed an enhancement 
> request for Nautilus about a year ago). Is there any plan to achieve that?
> 
>