rsync does hours of "fake-work" after failure

2017-10-06 Thread Frank Steiner via rsync
Hi, I just stepped on a strange and very annoying bug in rsync-3.1.0 as shipped with SuSE Linux Enterprise 12, but verified the bug also with rsync-HEAD-20170123. I tried to copy some of my movie collection to a usb disk that our TV could read, so it was formatted with vfat. I forgot that vfat

Why are system-namespaces not copied?

2018-09-18 Thread Frank Steiner via rsync
Hi, the man page states For systems that support extended-attribute namespaces, a copy being done by a super-user copies all namespaces except system.*. That's the reason why NFAv4 ACLs are not copied as they are in the system.nfs4_acl (or system.nfs4acl) namespace. Why are those