On 2010-08-02, at 23:06, Sebastian Gutierrez <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> > I have found some mention on lustre-discuss that using a tool that does a > backup of the xattrs is preferable. I am assuming that the cp -a should be > sufficient since it is supposed to preserve all. In the lustre-discuss > articles I only saw a mention of the patched tar and rsync. Is there any > reason not to trust cp?
If your co copies xattrs then great. I would verify this is correct by listing xattrs on both the old and new objects and comparing them. In newer Lustre rpms is ll_decode_filter_fid, which will format the OST object xattrs nicely. Cheers, Andreas _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
