Hello :) I've been using Homebrewed coreutils on my Mac for a while, and recently switched to MacPorts. With both of these package manager, the version of `mv` that is built will discard extended attributes when moving an item from one volume to another, though moving within the same volume the attributes are retained (I assume because here moving is done by simply editing an inode). The `mv` version that is bundled with OS X does not have this shortcoming. My testing with Ubuntu also shows that this is not an issue there.
I reported the bug to MacPorts, but was told that this is likely an upstream problem, so I should take it here :) Here's to hoping that's true :D To reproduce (here with MacPorts, coreutils 8.32. Volumes are JHFS+): daniel@titanic > xattr -w test fisso LICENSE daniel@titanic > xattr -p test LICENSE fisso daniel@titanic > which mv mv: aliased to /bin/mv daniel@titanic > mv LICENSE /Volumes/Scratch daniel@titanic > xattr -p test /Volumes/Scratch/LICENSE fisso daniel@titanic > /opt/local/libexec/gnubin//mv /Volumes/Scratch/LICENSE . daniel@titanic > xattr -p test LICENSE xattr: LICENSE: No such xattr: test Cheers, Daniel
