On Nov 1, 2006, at 9:57 PM, Ensel Sharon wrote:
I couldn't help noticing this during the configure:
checking whether to support extended attributes... Xattrs requested
but
not linux. Good luck
From what I've just been reading about FreeBSD extended attributes,
it's not going to work for you, as is.
I'm working on a patch for FreeBSD using this page as a reference:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=extattr&format=html
Be aware, however, that this stuff is extremely alpha!
Note the last line ... if my goal is to have OSX clients rsyncing
their
extended attributes files on to my FreeBSD 6.1 UFS2 filesystem ...
is that
a reasonable thing to be attempting ?
Attempting? Sure. Succeeding? You'll need to help out! =D
The xattrs code has been ported to work with OS X, so it shouldn't be
hard to add the code necessary to get it to work with FreeBSD.
Unfortunately, it appears the API is completely different.
Give me a half hour! :-)
According to wikipedia [1], linux, freebsd, solaris, and osx support
extended attributes.
It seems a worthy (and achievable) goal to get them working on all of
these platforms, if we have people who can test the support.
Wayne, I think it was a mistake to add an OS% infront of extended
attributes from MacOS. I think we should just leave them unescaped. I
also think the extended attribute for fake-super should just be
"RSync.stat" [2]. I really think this should be fixed BEFORE 2.6.9!
Otherwise people who use the patch as it is right now will have made
bad backups if it's changed later.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Attributes
[2] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes
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