On Fri, 2016-01-29 at 04:14 -0500, Ondrej Holy wrote: > as far as I know extended file attributes are not supported by any of > backends. NFS protocol doesn't support them all. SMB and SFTP > protocol should support them, however libsmbclient doesn't provide > API to read unix file modes at all. > SFTP backend should support unix modes already and it seems it is > possible to implement extended attributes support also, though I am > not sure it is a best idea. So I would recommend to use SFTP backend > and please file a bug against GVfs product if something doesn't work > (patches are welcome): > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gvfs
I would imagine SFTP would have access to attributes somehow. SFTP does support UNIX mode. Note - this is sort of related to < https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559586> - it is a good read around this topic. FYI, the extended attributes stuff is in glib/gio, not gvfs proper. > I would recommend rsync for backups anyway... but I am not really > sure whether rsync backend is possible to be implemented and whether > it would fulfill your needs. Rsync itself typically runs over another protocol; SFTP seems the most general purpose to me. > I don't know the protocol, but I doubt about it. GVfs lacks manpower > anyway, so you are welcome if you wish to propose patches for it... Yeah, do not expect much activity on bugs reports on GVFS. :( -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
