Am 17.09.19 um 02:06 schrieb Luis Fernando via rsync: > Some xattrs can't be copied between filesystems. For instance, compressed > btrfs has a "btrfs.compression" xattr. > When rsync -X is used in this situation, it exits with error code 23 (partial > file/attr), which seems dangerous to be ignored. > > Would it be reasonable to filter filesystem-specific flags when transferring > to a different filesystem by default (I'm not sure all fs follows the same > namespace, but maybe they start with "filesystem.*"?)? Maybe -XX could be > used to force it. Maybe a optionlist like --no-xattr-<name> for negative copy and --xattr-<name> for positive copy could be helpfull. --xattr-<name> could be used to simply copy only some xattr, --no-xattr-<name> could be used to switch off copy of some xattr if --xattrs or -X is used. Maybe it is interested in to add a bunch of filesystem specific rules instead of each simple xattr. Maybe a list could be used like --xattrs-ext4, --xattrs-btrfs is interested. The order of the rules could be used to handle the attributes which should been copied or not.
Here an example: -X --no-xattrs-btrfs --xattrs-ext4 should do the job to copy all xattrs from btrfs to ext4 which are only exists on ext4 and btrfs. That's my 2 cent :-) Cheers, Pierre -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
