On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 09:22:50PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 08:27:54AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 10:37:34AM +0200, Daan De Meyer wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > It seems using --protofile ignores any extended attributes set on > > > source files. I would like to generate an XFS filesystem using > > > --protofile where extended attributes are copied from the source files > > > into the generated filesystem. Any way to make this happen with > > > --protofile? > > > > mkfs.xfs doesn't have a '--protofile' option. It has a '-p <file>' > > option for specifying a protofile - is that what you mean? > > While we're on the topic, would it also be useful to have a -p switch > that would copy the fsxattr options as well? If protofile support is going to be extended then supporting everything that can be read/set through generic kernel interfaces would be appropriate... But I'm not convinced that we should extend protofile support because mounting the filesytsem and running rsync, xfs_restore, etc can already do all this stuffi with no development work necessary... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
