Re: [rdiff-backup-users] KeyError exception

[Austin Clements]

Funky.  Nice catch.

As a data point, neither of the systems I've been testing on or across
have either ACL or ExtendedAttributes enabled.  I've attached the full
list of abilities at the bottom for reference.

Quoth Andrew Ferguson on Jan 19 at  5:02 pm:
> Austin,
> 
> Here's an update on your KeyError exception.
> 
> On my machine that passes your test, I noticed that it has ACL and
> ExtendedAttributes support ON for the source and OFF for the DEST,
> whereas my machine that doesn't pass it does not. On a hunch, I tried
> disabling those and it failed your test!
> 
> Strangely, I have to disable both ACL and EA support on the source for
> it to fail. Just one does not do it.
> 
> 
> Andrew

All of the file systems involved have the same configurations as
follows, except for "ownership changing", which is on when I do my
actual backups.

Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
  Ownership changing                           Off
  Hard linking                                 On
  fsync() directories                          On
  Directory inc permissions                    On
  High-bit permissions                         On
  Symlink permissions                          Off
  Extended filenames                           On
  Windows reserved filenames                   Off
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Case sensitivity                             On
  Escape DOS devices                           Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off

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