On 01/31/2013 07:06 PM, j...@dockes.org wrote:
When moving a file having extended attributes to a target filesystem which does not support them (e.g. an NFS mount), the attributes are silently lost. I think that mv should not complete the move in this case, as the current behaviour leads to silent and unexpected data loss. Ideally, this behaviour should be controlled by an option, but I think that the default should be to refuse to lose data. mv version: mv (GNU coreutils) 8.13 Checked on Ubuntu 12.04 (probably not relevant).
The previous discussion on that was at: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-04/threads.html#00174 and the corresponding diagnostics supression patch at: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=941bd48 I'm inclined to agree there should be some diagnostics. Perhaps we could output diagnostics as normal, but only try the operation once that gives ENOTSUP? thanks, Pádraig.
