Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 04:26:30 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 216127] sbin/restore doesn't honour extended attributes (extattr on ufs) Message-ID: <bug-216127-6-FO0XzCP0f9@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-216127-6@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-216127-6@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216127 --- Comment #13 from Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org> --- The extended attribute system calls either add or delete attributes. To get the behavior of replacing the extended attributes rather than augmenting them would require explicitly removing the old attributes and then adding the new ones. An easier approach is to unlink the old file (which clears out the old extended attributes) and then create the new file of the same name and add the new extended attributes to it. This effect can be obtained by including the -u flag when running restore. So perhaps what should be done is to simply add text to the restore man page suggesting the the -u flag be used when restoring files with extended attributes to avoid having them accumulate? Or maybe just make the -u flag default to on. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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