On Monday, 26 June 2006 19:52, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jun 26, 2006 17:30 +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > The result were errors when copying files with cp -p (which preserves > > xattrs). > > Is that true of "cp" in general, or only SuSE "cp"? It's our cp only right now. > We get problems with > Lustre when root is copying files, because SuSE cp is incorrectly trying to > copy all of the EAs by default. If I have an EA that is specific to a > file I don't necessarily want it to be copied. There's a blacklist in libattr which we could add Lustre attributes to. A blacklist somewhere in /etc would be even better though I guess. > It would probably be preferrable that cp only copy EAs that it understands. What to do with unknown attributes? Warn? Err out? Andreas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
