Mystery of Extended Attributes
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Tue Apr 25 12:18:43 UTC 2006
When using dump/restore to copy a file-system recently,
I got hundreds of warnings like
restore: lsetxattr ./tftpboot/vmlinuz failed: Operation not supported
In spite of this, the copy worked faultlessly as far as I can see.
I was told that these warnings referred to "extended attributes"
but I have been unable to find any such attributes on my system.
I "yum install"-ed attr.i386 2.4.28-1.2
but "getfattr -d <filename>" and "attr -l <filename>"
give me absolutely nothing for any file on the system.
According to "man getfattr"
this command should at least return the filename
but in my case it returns nothing.
Can someone enlighten me on this phenomenon.
I was running FC-4 when I got the warnings,
but am now running FC-5.
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Timothy Murphy
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