Solaris xattr support (from Mac OS X 10.6)

[James Relph]

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can confirm if they've been able to successfully transfer xattrs with rsync to a Solaris (based) system (in this case Nexenta Core 3).  I managed to get rsync to build with xattr support on Nexenta by using 3.0.10dev, and running rsync --version shows that it's included.  However if I try to rsync files from a Mac OS X (10.6) system to the Nexenta system (or vice versa) none of the xattrs are transferred although I don't get any errors back.

The command I'm trying is basically:

/usr/local/bin/rsync -azvu --xattrs --delete --protect-args --rsync-path="/usr/local/bin/rsync" user at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/Users/user/test /tank/dedup/

The xattrs on the files I'm transferring are successfully retained if I transfer them using CIFS, so it's nothing related to the filesystem at the other side.  Is it just a case that the Solaris xattr support isn't complete/working, or has anyone been able to get it running?  I've found the following bug, but 3.0.10dev does at least think it's got Solaris xattr support.

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6633

Thanks for any help.

James

ACSA 10.5

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