In talking with Michal last night, he wants a different approach to the
xattr work, based on using xattrs as alternate storage for what's currently
stored externally in HashCache pickles, but offering the same kind of
protection (e.g. detection of file changes which cause the md5 to be
recalculated
Jay - thanks for the patch. I've made some stylistic changes, as well as
simplifies testing for xattr
module import success, passes the result into the Config object,
and ensures the correct namespace is used. Also added a test to the
test
suite, and the entry on the manpage.
I gave
My apologies for cutting/pasting/posting without proofing.
This patch allows s3cmd to utilize md5sums stored in the extended attributes of
files. If for any reason, that doesn’t work, the usual md5sum mechanisms are
used. This option only has impact if check md5 is enabled.
The last patch
