On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:18:43PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > When using dump/restore to copy a file-system recently, > I got hundreds of warnings like > > restore: lsetxattr ./tftpboot/vmlinuz failed: Operation not supported > > In spite of this, the copy worked faultlessly as far as I can see. > > I was told that these warnings referred to "extended attributes" > but I have been unable to find any such attributes on my system. > I "yum install"-ed attr.i386 2.4.28-1.2 > but "getfattr -d <filename>" and "attr -l <filename>" > give me absolutely nothing for any file on the system. > > According to "man getfattr" > this command should at least return the filename > but in my case it returns nothing. > > Can someone enlighten me on this phenomenon. > I was running FC-4 when I got the warnings, > but am now running FC-5. I don't know the answer, but I have the same questions. See my previous posts on the list. Does anyone have any answers? -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan, | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89) http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | my beautiful Queen. | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)
