On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:04 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > On Saturday, April 15, 2006 1:36 PM +0100 Timothy Murphy > <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The only issue is that I got thousands of warnings during the restores, > > like this: > > > > restore: lsetxattr ./etc/hotplug/pci.agent failed: Operation not supported > > > > I compared the old and new files with "stat" but couldn't see any > > difference apart from the inode numbers, > > and the system seems to be working fine. > > I wonder if this has something to do with selinux > > (which I have turned off)? > > I'd raise this on the dump mailing list. The developer is very responsive > there. > > "man lsetxattr" indicates that this is an issue with extended attributes. I > think you can see those with the "lsattr" command. (Example: I set the "d" > attribute on things I don't want routinely dumped, like my Fedora DVD image > that's mounted as a yum core repository.) > The extended attributes are AFAIK SElinux related, and if the dump is not properly restoring that it certainly should be submitted as a bug. OTOH, if you are running with SElinux disabled or permissive then they will not prevent operations, merely generate a lot of warnings.
