rsync, xattrs, ntfs-3g and "selinux.selinux"

[Tom London]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Murray McAllister <mmcallis at redhat.com> wrote:
> Tom London wrote:
>>
>> Running rawhide.
>>
>> I use "rsync" to backup my system to a USB hard drive.
>>
>> I also ntfs-3g mount a WinXP partition to '/mnt/windows' on boot, and
>> I use the above rsync to back that up as well.
>>
>> Adding '-xattrs' to the argument list for rsync seems to produce scads
>> of the following (I'm guessing one for each file in the ntfs-3g file
>> system ):
>>
>> rsync: rsync_xal_clear:
>>
>> lremovexattr("mnt/windows/WINDOWS/twain_32/wiatwain.ds","security.selinux")
>> failed: Permission denied (13)
>> rsync: rsync_xal_clear:
>> lremovexattr("mnt/windows/temp","security.selinux") failed: Permission
>> denied (13)
>> rsync: rsync_xal_clear:
>> lremovexattr("mnt/windows/temp/setup.log","security.selinux") failed:
>> Permission denied (13)
>>
>> Destination fs i ext4dev.
>>
>> When mounted, all the files in /mnt/windows have type: fusefs_t.  When
>> rsych'ed, the type on the ext4 fs is file_t.
>>
>> Running 'getfatttr -d' on the source files produces, for example:
>> [root at localhost temp]# getfattr -d *
>> getfattr: setup.log: Operation not supported
>> [root at localhost temp]#
>>
>> On the destination fs, result is
>> [root at localhost temp]# getfattr -d *
>> [root at localhost temp]#
>>
>> This something due to the way I mounted the ntfs-3g fs? The way I run
>> rsync?  Other?
>>
>> thanks,
>>   tom
>
> This might be off topic, but I am unable to get rsync -X to preserve the
> SELinux context: <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458014>.
>
> Cheers.
>
Appears that your issue is different: I'm running source and
destination on the same rawhide server.

Apparently, no problem with preserving contexts, just the above issue
with "mounted ntfs-3g" files.

tom
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Tom London