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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Eric Chen <echen@ateonix.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: changing file copy to support extended attributes
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:11:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030212131109.M22930@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NFBBIGILIDAABCBKKGMLAECOCCAA.echen@ateonix.com>; from echen@ateonix.com on Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:35:11AM -0800

On Feb 12, 2003  11:35 -0800, Eric Chen wrote:
> I wanted to modify file copy so it supports extended attributes. I am using
> extended attributes provided by the XFS filesystem, and right now when I
> copy a file with an extended attribute bit set on, the copy of the file does
> not preserve the extended attribute. I could use some help in this area
> because I am not sure where to start. If anyone has some suggestions or can
> offer me some help or resources to go to, please let me know.

Probably only user-space changes are needed.  I think there are already
modified tools for this.  See http://acl.bestbits.at.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/


  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-12 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-12 19:35 Eric Chen
2003-02-12 20:11 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2003-02-12 21:30 ` Jesse Pollard

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