Re: Preserving ext2-4 attributes

2019-12-17 Thread Alan Stern via rsync
On Tue, 17 Dec 2019, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 7:44 PM Alan Stern via rsync > wrote: > > What is the reason for this behavior? Is there any way for rsync to > > preserve these attributes? If not, how can rsync be used to make a > > reliabl

Preserving ext2-4 attributes

2019-12-13 Thread Alan Stern via rsync
I have searched for this topic on the mailing list and on Google without finding anything. Is this already a well known issue? The problem is that rsync does not preserve ext2-4 attributes (even when using the -a, -A, and -X flags). Note that these are different from extended attributes: Extend