On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 13:50 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 06/05/2011 12:32 PM, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:39:02 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote > > > >> - rsync -a FAILS! > > > > rsync supports -X (for xattr) and -A (for ACLs), both must be > > given explicitly. > > Thanks, rsync -X actually works (and I wonder why -X is not included > in -a, just as for cp). > > I see tar has --xattrs. With tar -c it works (the tar file contains the > string with the value), but tar -x does not recreate the xattr. > > By using strace I see that rsync does > > open(".a.eWMgCy", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 1 > fchmod(1, 0700) = 0 > close(1) = 0 > lstat64(".a.eWMgCy", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0700, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 > llistxattr(".a.eWMgCy", 0x82bb0c0, 1024) = 0 > lsetxattr(".a.eWMgCy", "security.capability", "\x01\x00\x00\x02\x00 \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00", 20, 0) = 0 > lsetxattr(".a.eWMgCy", "user.qqq", "www", 3, 0) = 0 > utimensat(AT_FDCWD, ".a.eWMgCy", {UTIME_NOW, {1307265135, 0}}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > chmod(".a.eWMgCy", 0755) = 0 > rename(".a.eWMgCy", "a") = 0 > > while tar -x does > > mknod("a", 0700) = 0 > setxattr("a", "user.qqq", "www", 3, 0) = 0 > open("a", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0700) = 4 > close(4) = 0 > utimensat(AT_FDCWD, "a", {{1307271119, 468295223}, {1307265135, 0}}, 0) = 0 > setxattr("a", "user.qqq", "www", 3, 0) = 0 > chown32("a", 0, 0) = 0 > chmod("a", 0755) = 0 > > Why is tar not working? ("getcap a" prints nothing) > Simply because tar does not store all the extended attributes. Just limited set of them. At the moment security.capability is not among them. Feel free to report a bugzilla against rawhide tar... You may also consider using star... where is the support for extended attributes present for longer time (and upstream). Greetings, Ondrej Vasik -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel