Rsync is called with ACL/xattr option but it's not supported by destination filesystem

[rndmerle]

Hi.

When rsyncing, those sort of errors occured :
rsync: rsync_xal_set: lsetxattr("somedir/.somefile.v4Iw7m","user.Zone.Identifier") failed: Operation not supported (95)

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 10.4. The destination filesystem is ext3.
By default no drives are mounted with xattr support.
Rsync is compiled with ACL/xattr support by default, though.

Maybe it's related with https://bugs.launchpad.net/backintime/+bug/489380

I added the destination drive in /etc/fstab with the user_xattr option and rsync worked flawlessly.

Best regards.

[Dan (danleweb)]

The should be some options to enable/disable ACL/xattr.

[Steffen Neumann (sneumann)]

Hi,

would that be a user-configurable setting,
or could BiT check whether the target can handle
ACL/xattr, as in try { rsync -AX } { catch ... }

Yours,
Steffen

[rndmerle (rndmerle)]

Maybe just parsing the result of the "mount" command to see if the destination device is mounted using the user_xattr option.
But BiT only know the destination path. How to find to which device this path belongs, I don't know.

[Dan (danleweb)]

Mount is not enough: it can be a remote drive (sshfs for example) but this don't tell enought the real fs.
I atted the option to enable/disable ACL/XATTR.