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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:11:09 -0700
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Eric Chen <echen@ateonix.com>
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Subject: Re: changing file copy to support extended attributes
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On Feb 12, 2003  11:35 -0800, Eric Chen wrote:
> I wanted to modify file copy so it supports extended attributes. I am using
> extended attributes provided by the XFS filesystem, and right now when I
> copy a file with an extended attribute bit set on, the copy of the file does
> not preserve the extended attribute. I could use some help in this area
> because I am not sure where to start. If anyone has some suggestions or can
> offer me some help or resources to go to, please let me know.

Probably only user-space changes are needed.  I think there are already
modified tools for this.  See http://acl.bestbits.at.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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