It's simply a shell grokking issue, when you allow your (l)users to self name your files then you will have spaces etc in the filename (breaks shell arguments). In this case the '[E]' is breaking your command line argument grokking. We have the same issue in our photos tree. We have to use non shell tools to do the copying or attribute changing.
> CG> # ls > CG> > /pond/photos/unsorted/drive-452a/\[E\]/drive/archives/seconddisk_20nov2002/eujpg/103* > CG> > /pond/photos/unsorted/drive-452a/[E]/drive/archives/seconddisk_20nov2002/eujpg/103-0398_IMG.JPG > CG> > /pond/photos/unsorted/drive-452a/[E]/drive/archives/seconddisk_20nov2002/eujpg/103-0399_IMG.JPG > CG> > /pond/photos/unsorted/drive-452a/[E]/drive/archives/seconddisk_20nov2002/eujpg/103-0400_IMG.JPG > CG> # ls > CG> > /pond/copytestsame/unsorted/drive-452a/\[E\]/drive/archives/seconddisk_20nov2002/eujpg/103* > CG> > /pond/copytestsame/unsorted/drive-452a/[E]/drive/archives/seconddisk_20nov2002/eujpg/103-0399_IMG.JPG > CG> > /pond/copytestsame/unsorted/drive-452a/[E]/drive/archives/seconddisk_20nov2002/eujpg/103-0400_IMG.JPG > CG> # grep eujpg /tmp/cp.truss | grep 103 | grep seconddisk > CG> > open64("unsorted/drive-452a/[E]/drive/archives/seconddisk_20nov2002/eujpg/103-0399_IMG.JPG", > CG> O_RDONLY) = 0 > CG> > open64("unsorted/drive-452a/[E]/drive/archives/seconddisk_20nov2002/eujpg/103-0399_IMG.JPG", > CG> O_RDONLY) = 0 > CG> > open64("/pond/copytestsame//unsorted/drive-452a/[E]/drive/archives/seconddisk_20nov2002/eujpg/103-0399_IMG.JPG", > CG> O_RDONLY) = 6 > CG> > open64("unsorted/drive-452a/[E]/drive/archives/seconddisk_20nov2002/eujpg/103-0400_IMG.JPG", > CG> O_RDONLY) = 0 > CG> > open64("unsorted/drive-452a/[E]/drive/archives/seconddisk_20nov2002/eujpg/103-0400_IMG.JPG", > CG> O_RDONLY) = 0 > CG> > open64("/pond/copytestsame//unsorted/drive-452a/[E]/drive/archives/seconddisk_20nov2002/eujpg/103-0400_IMG.JPG", > CG> O_RDONLY) = 6 > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss