[ale] ext3 extended atttributes not supported on ext4?

[Jim Kinney]

Maybe I'm reading it wrong but it looks like the error is on the source
file not the target filesystem. Bad inode?
On Mar 11, 2014 1:45 PM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at dsservices.com> wrote:

>   We were doing a restore from a backup taken off an ext3 filesystem
> (with defaults in fstab) from an older install to an ext4 on a newer
> install.   This was mostly successful but on some of the files we saw:
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> EXT2_IOC_SETFLAGS failed for /database/postgresql/msi/archive/76699438 -
> Extended Attributes not set. Errno = 95: Operation not supported
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> On looking into that I find discussion of similar issues when trying to
> restore from VxFS (Veritas) to ext3 or from UFS (Solaris) to ext3 but
> nothing regarding ext3 to ext4.
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> Looking at the man page for this stuff on line it simply says extended
> attributes are supported by ext2/ext3/ext4.
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> I’m wondering if my issue is simply that the NetBackup software is calling
> “EXT2_IOC_SETFLAGS” given that this is ext4.   Is there some compatibility
> option I can put in my ext4 mount options to make it accept that that call?
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> Currently I’m having my co-worker create an ext3 filesystem so he can
> restore to it so we can either then copy from that to the ext4 or simply
> convert the ext3 to ext4 but I’m thinking it may be simply a compatibility
> option we need to give it for the restore.
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