[OpenIndiana-discuss] cp -p problem: extend system attributes

[Marcel Telka]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:46:39AM +0100, Carsten Grzemba wrote:
> The problem is only with the spares attribute, so you need a file with the
> spares attribut set, eg.:
> 
> grzemba at oi-kvm:~$ ls -/c xscreensaver.sav
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grzemba staff 7276 Feb 25 2010 xscreensaver.sav
>  {---------s}
> 
> grzemba at oi-kvm:~$ cp -p xscreensaver.sav /tmp
> cp: Failed to copy extended system attributes from xscreensaver.sav to /tmp/xscreensaver.sav

I think this is because tmpfs does not support extended system attributes. If
you'll copy to a zfs it should work.

> 
> I do not know how to modify (set) system attributes. runat it not possible
> for system attributes I guess.

To set the sparse attribute you could use this:

/usr/bin/chmod S=cs xscreensaver.sav

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