>> 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
The cp -ar worked fine. Thanks Again Sebastian _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
