Re: Better network support?

[Ondrej Holy <oholy redhat com>]

Hello,

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 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. 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...

Regards

Ondrej

----- Original Message -----
> I recently bought a NAS and was disappointed to discover that there
> was no way to do network file transfers that supported ACL and
> Extended Attributes. Niether SMB, NFS or even SSH did the trick. I had
> to fall back to the comand line and use rsync.
>
> Would it be possible to add rsync support, as a type of network
> device, to Nautilus?
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