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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: rsync from xfs to nfs+xfs and ACL problems
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 07:51:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100519115151.GA19104@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201005191346.38699@zmi.at>

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 01:46:38PM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2010 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > XFS stores ACLs different than other Linux filesystems because it's
> > on-disk compatible to IRIX.  While the other filesystems store the
> >  ACL in the same format that is used for the user interface XFS
> >  stores it in a separate trusted extended attribute.  rsync should
> >  and
> > traditionally has ignored those attributes, but it seems something in
> > rsync changed recently so that it tries to copy these attributes in
> > the trusted.* namespace, which fails on NFS.
>  
> Thank you. Does that mean I can simply ignore that errors, and that 
> everything is OK even over NFS?

Thinks should be okay - rsync probably has copied the ACLs via the
normal system namespace.  You can verify this by doing a getfacl
on a nfs file that should havfe ACLs.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-19 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-18 11:50 rsync from xfs to nfs+xfs and ACL problems Michael Monnerie
2010-05-18 12:33 ` Dave Chinner
2010-05-19 11:04   ` Michael Monnerie
2010-05-19 11:20     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-19 11:46       ` Michael Monnerie
2010-05-19 11:51         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-05-20 22:05   ` Linda Walsh
2010-05-18 16:52 ` Emmanuel Florac

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