FUSE runs on windows?
It was from cygwin to a CIFS (Samba machine) -- problem is
that cygwin's view of CIFS is pretty limited -- (apparently) since
CIFS supports the extended windows attributes (like the Zone code that
stores where files have come from when you download them) -- and the
underlying XFS supports extended file attrs as well, but Samba doesn't
use the -- it stores them as separate 'terds' on the Linux machine (though
I'm told that will change in the next (maybe current) version).
It's just cygwin -- that has problems -- it can't even speak UTF-8 without
an occasional hiccup, though it does alot better now than it did last time I
tried it. At least I can set my codepage in 'bash' to 65001, and not have
the cygwin-bash window completely freeze up on me -- in fact the tty version of vim in cygin read UTF just fine. So far only, thought UTF-8 is sketchy --
the graphical vim (under cygwin-X) displays garbage in UTF-8 mode, and some of the cmd-line utils don't like it too well.
But extended attributes? Most of the gnu utils aren't there yet, so I
wouldn't expect cygwin to jump ahead of them. Could happen, but....its not
like cygwin is a full distro -- just a compat layer on top of win.
Matt McCutchen wrote:
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 09:43 -0700, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
Maybe rsync could support extattrs on non-supporting fs's with a
.<fn>.xattr file stored
at the same place as the <fn>:
If a user used a switch to emulate 'xattrs', then on a fs that
didn't support real .xattrs one
could still ACL and other .xattr info. If a user ran rsync w/o that
switch such files
would be treated as 'normal files' -- allowing copying as normal files
between other
targets, but allowing ACL restoration on some final target by re using
the --emulate
switch, where it would detect the files on the source, and support on a
target, and
set ACL's appropriately?
Just a thought....? Doable or reasonable?
I think the xattr emulation would be more appropriately done in a
virtual filesystem to be layered over the real one (e.g., with FUSE)
than in rsync.
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