Re: Extended attributes limit in Linux

[Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>]

On 02/02 2014 23:12 PM, Jeff Liu wrote:
> 
> On 02/02 2014 22:33 PM, Sun_Blood wrote:
<snip>
>>>> FYI, Example of output from one of the failing files. First from OS X
>>>> and then same file after failed copy to XFS.
>>>>
>>>> OS X Maverik:
>>>> file: "/Users/username/Pictures/iPhoto
>>>> Library/Database/apdb/BigBlobs.apdb"
>>>> type: "\0\0\0\0"
>>>> creator: "\0\0\0\0"
>>>> attributes: avbstclinmedz
>>>> created: 01/25/2014 11:43:17
>>>> modified: 01/28/2014 20:02:46
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ubunutu 
>>>> getfattr: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
>>>> # file: srv/nas/home/apple_bak_rsync/username/Pictures/iPhoto
>>>> Library/Database/BigBlobs.apdb
>>>> user.com.apple.quarantine="0006;52e39545;iPhoto;”
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry, but I don't quite follow your thought. What do you show by this
>>> output?
>>> What do you mean? Could you describe in more details?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vyacheslav Dubeyko.
>>
>> Sorry late reply. The output is just to show what happen after I
>> transfer a file from OS X to XFS that has EA bigger then 64k(I think).
>> When I try for example to rsync this file from OS X to Linux XFS I get
>> this error:
>> rsync: rsync_xal_set:
>> lsetxattr(""/srv/nas/home/apple_bak_rsync/xxxxxx/Pictures/iPhoto
>> Library/Database/BigBlobs.apdb"","user.com.apple.FinderInfo") failed:
>> Operation not permitted (1)
>>
>> But also rsync can give this error.
>> rsync: rsync_xal_set:
>> lsetxattr(""/srv/danne/extern2/1000_EXT/2013/2013-03-05/IMG_6872-Edit.tif"","user.com.apple.ResourceFork")
>> failed: Argument list too long (7)
>>
>> Is this 2 errors related?
> 
> Those errors are unrelated IMO, the first one is due to the permission rules but
> I'm not sure the root cause, the second one is occurred as the EA value is larger
> than 64K I guess.
>  
>>
>> I will make a bug report for rsync also that it should not try to copy
>> files with EA bigger then the destination can handle. But it would be
>> great if XFS could handle this files and be fully compatible with OS X
>> backups.
> 
> 64K size is not limited by XFS directly, it is limited by VFS setxattr syscall.
> IOWs, EA set operation is not yet get into XFS when "Argument list too long" error
> is returned, so I think you would ran into the same error on other file systems
> which are support 64K EA value size as well.

To be more precise, larger EA set operation would not works via setxattr(2) on Linux
regardless of the underlying file systems :).

Thanks,
-Jeff

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