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

[Rob Ross]

right, which is cool, except that they should also silently ignore those 
failures when it isn't going to work.

rob

Nathan Poznick wrote:
> 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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