Hi, I have recently downloaded the rsync-3.0.0pre5 and wanted to see how it works (especially xattr feature).. I did following steps.. ./configure make make test make test shows following tests skipped.. SKIP xattrs (Unable to set an xattr) from 3.0 i have read that xattr support is by default and there is no specific patch is required to use this feature.. I want to know how the xattr really works.. Here are my enviornment details #uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:27:17 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux #cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4) All file systems are of type ext3 and mounted with acl option. Thanks in advance Regards, suresh -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/rsync-3.0.0pre5-Problem-with-xattr-tf4859989.html#a13907603 Sent from the Samba - rsync mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 22:49 -0800, Suresh Kumar wrote:> Hi, > I have recently downloaded the rsync-3.0.0pre5 and wanted to see how it > works (especially xattr feature).. > I did following steps.. > ./configure > make > make test > > make test shows following tests skipped.. > SKIP xattrs (Unable to set an xattr)Hello, You need to have proper support for xattr on your system. I would suggest verifying the following: 1) Your kernel is compatible 2) You have the xattr libraries (runtime and devel) installed 3) The filesystem on you're building from can set xattrs Item 3 tricked me the first time. :) Fair warning, however: i've found xattr support in pre5 to be sketchy at best... -- dan.