From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ales Zelinka <azelinka@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFE] --reference option for setfattr
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:01:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081222130103.GA12367@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49101B02.60004@redhat.com>
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:50:58AM +0100, Ales Zelinka wrote:
> currently when I want to copy all extended attributes from one file to
> another, I have to use ugly command like this:
>
> getfattr --dump -m '-' /etc/samba/smb.conf |sed 's;file:
> etc/samba/smb.conf;file: /tmp/smb.conf;'| setfattr --restore=-
>
> Would you please implement --reference=some_file option that will read
> all extended attributes set on some_file and set them on pathname?
>
> The previous use case would then look like this:
>
> setfattr --reference=/etc/samba/smb.conf /tmp/smb.conf
>
> Other commands from file-attributes-manipulation familly already have
> parameter like this (chmod, chown, chcon,...)
This feature seems useful to me, any chance you could try coming up with
a patch?
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-04 9:50 [RFE] --reference option for setfattr Ales Zelinka
2008-12-22 13:01 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-12-22 13:47 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
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