Try my experimental rsync with xattr support

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Thu Oct 14 21:39:26 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 11:36 -0400, Jay Fenlason wrote:
> I've written a patch to rsync that adds support for transferring posix
> extended attributes.  I've put the srpm and an i386 binary rpm at
> http://people.redhat.com/fenlason/rsync/rsync-2.6.3-2.{src,i386}.rpm
> These rpms also contain the acl patch.

Cool, will play.

On a related but tangental note - is (solaris) man 5 fsattr description
of cpio + xattr sufficient for an implementation, assuming it doesn't
break SUS, etc:

http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?fsattr+5

Could be an alternate way of bundling xattrs in rpm.

Paul




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