question on extended attributes

[Kostik Belousov]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 05:01:58PM -0500, Daniel Mayfield wrote:
> I'm trying to use rsync and rsnapshot to make backup copies of my Mac to my freebsd 8.2 server .  When I specify syncing extended attributes as well, I get an error for any file on the Mac that has a resource fork: 
> 
> rsync: rsync_xal_set: lsetxattr("Documents/<foo>","com.apple.ResourceFork") failed: No space left on device (28)
> 
> I'd love to work on fixing this, but I'm seeing a bunch of references to UFS1 vs UFS2 in the extended attribute readme.  But I'm not sure what I'm actually using (I took the default when it setup, which says ufs2+softdep, but mount simply says ufs).
> 
> Can someone help point me in the right direction?

UFS2 only allows for 2 blocks to store extended attrs. I believe this is
the cause of your error.
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