On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 03:36:05PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > 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... rsync doesn't support copying the fsxattr data (though it does support extended attributes), and iirc xfsdump can only do entire filesystems, right? --D > Cheers, > > Dave. > -- > Dave Chinner > david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
