>> 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
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