[Pvfs2-users] Re: seqfault on "cp" when using pvfs2's kernel module

[Nathan Poznick]

Thus spake Murali Vilayannur:
> the last one indicating the reason for the operation not being supported
> error since it attempts to set extended attributes as well.. i wonder why
> we dont see this on FC/debian...
> Anyways if you do
> cp --attributes=- /mnt/pvfs2/testfile /whatever
> you could silence this error/warning..

Hrm, from /usr/share/doc/coreutils/changelog.Debian.gz:

coreutils (5.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
...
  * Removed xattr patch. AFAICT this isn't particularly useful for
    anything except selinux, and other selinux support isn't included.
    Also, the option added with this patch isn't being used
    consistently between different linux distributions and I'd rather
    not support something that will cause incompatibilities. If anyone
    was depending on this support please contact me with details.
    (Closes: #244603)

So it looks like Mandriva is using a sort of unoffical patch which tries
to automagically copy all extended attributes.


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Nathan Poznick <kraken at wang-fu.org>

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