On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 09:42 +0200, Ondrej Vasik wrote: > Could you please specify coreutils version where you experience the > issue? Sorry, forgot that. This was the corutils from Debian sid, which is currently 8.5. > but in the case of extended attributes and > SELinux context possible failure of preserving these attributes doesn't > change exit status. Oh that's bad,.. why? Can I get this behavious by using --preserve=context,xattr,all to REALLY preserve everything and get errors if this didn't work. > please try if using --preserve=xattr > shows an error. I did, but no error, no preservation. Also it's on the same filesystem (with user_xattr enabled,.. so there should be no problem).