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Hi everyone :) I'm professionally and seriously working with extended filesystem attributes (xattrs) for search/retrieval of data. I am making a "thincopy" of large data trees, like this: `$ cp --attributes-only --preserve=all $(SOURCE) $(TARGET)` Is there a way to do this with rsync? I'm asking, because I'd like to keep that thin-copy in-sync (including xattrs). Such a thincopy has proven immediately useful as "instant metada...

Dear Roland, On 12/10/24 21:15, Roland Kletzing wrote: > hello, > that sounds interesting - just one question:? what about file size? is > it always zero or is it set to the original size and the file contents > are empty ? The filesize (IMO) should stay 0 bytes, since the file actually /is/ empty. I believe forging the filesize number in the filesystem to its source (original) size