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You know that e.g. linux supports extended attributes and they don't copy so easily over ftp either?
by tedunangst 3y ago
You know that e.g. linux supports extended attributes and they don't copy so easily over ftp either?
- chasil 3y agoYes, I know that ACLs, security contexts, and zfs/btrfs parameters aren't going to move. This would be know as "filesystem metadata," and the send/receive operations on zfs/btrfs would be the best bet to preserve them. However, my ODS-2 problem was not metadata, it was data that lacked esoteric formatting. I certainly don't need that for Oracle RMAN - an FTP binary transfer will always works.
- tambourine_man 3y agoAt some point you start wondering what's meta and what's data, after all.
- chasil 3y agoEverything in the stat() structure is metadata. We could start there.
- tambourine_man 3y agoWhy do we consider creation date to be metadata, for instance? In photos and audio files, it's so essencial that it is stored in the data stream, even though we call it metadata. It's a fuzzy line and everyone is probably a bit discontent to where it's drawn.