Mystery of Extended Attributes
Kayvan A. Sylvan
kayvan at sylvan.com
Tue Apr 25 18:21:33 UTC 2006
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:18:43PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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.
I don't know the answer, but I have the same questions.
See my previous posts on the list.
Does anyone have any answers?
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