Re: [Dump-users] Extended attributes on Linux

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

Le mercredi 05 juillet 2006 =E0 11:42 +0200, Nick Garfield a =E9crit :
> Greetings fellow Dump users,
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> I recently received a request to allow user extended attributes.  As I
> try not to be the BOFH I said,"sounds reasonable, why not" :-)
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> File systems on the machine are now mounted like
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> /dev/sda2 on /opt type ext3 (rw,user_xattr)
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> And fstab entries are like:
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> /dev/sda1               /                       ext3            default=
s
> 1 1
> /dev/sda2               /opt                    ext3
> defaults,user_xattr                     1 2
> Etc
> Etc
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> It later ocurred to me that I don't know how dump behaves with these
> extended attributes.
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> Dump looks like this:
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> dump 0.4b37 (using libext2fs 1.32 of 09-Nov-2002)
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> And linux kernel looks like this:
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> Linux dufus 2.4.21-40.EL.cernsmp #1 SMP Fri Mar 17 00:53:42 CET 2006
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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> The kernel is a slightly modified RHEL3 (see
> https://www.scientificlinux.org/)
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> My question is: Will extended attributes be backed up by dump on the
> /opt volume?

Dump fully supports extended attributes. However, there were some issues
with this support in some versions of dump and/or restore, so I'd
suggest you upgrade to the latest version (0.4b41).

Stelian.
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Stelian Pop <st...@po...>