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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mkfs.xfs with --protofile does not copy extended attributes into the generated filesystem
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 15:36:05 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZR+OtcVIsVrJeqMO@dread.disaster.area> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231006042250.GP21298@frogsfrogsfrogs>

On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 09:22:50PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 08:27:54AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 10:37:34AM +0200, Daan De Meyer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > It seems using --protofile ignores any extended attributes set on
> > > source files. I would like to generate an XFS filesystem using
> > > --protofile where extended attributes are copied from the source files
> > > into the generated filesystem. Any way to make this happen with
> > > --protofile?
> > 
> > mkfs.xfs doesn't have a '--protofile' option. It has a '-p <file>'
> > option for specifying a protofile - is that what you mean?
> 
> While we're on the topic, would it also be useful to have a -p switch
> that would copy the fsxattr options as well?

If protofile support is going to be extended then supporting
everything that can be read/set through generic kernel interfaces
would be appropriate...

But I'm not convinced that we should extend protofile support
because mounting the filesytsem and running rsync, xfs_restore, etc
can already do all this stuffi with no development work necessary...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-06  4:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-05  8:37 mkfs.xfs with --protofile does not copy extended attributes into the generated filesystem Daan De Meyer
2023-10-05 21:27 ` Dave Chinner
2023-10-06  4:22   ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-10-06  4:36     ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2023-10-06  5:04       ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-10-06  7:24         ` Daan De Meyer
2023-10-06 18:57           ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-10-09  9:59             ` Daan De Meyer

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