.xattr and native xattr on zfs

[caspolerdu]

Howdy,

I'm using Filebot via a deb install on ubuntu 20.04. I'm renaming into a zfs pool with xattr=sa. The xattrs are being added to the files, but it's also creating the .xattr directory as well.

When I set useExtendedFileAttributes=false, it doesn't create either set of xattrs.

Is there a setting I can set to force it to only use the native xattrs?

Thank you!

[rednoah]

Is there a setting I can set to force it to only use the native xattrs?

This is default behaviour. FileBot will only use native xattr by default. Please read xattr metadata for details. Please run filebot -clear-prefs to delete any custom settings that you may have set.


Are you using the command-line? What's the command? What's the console output? Please read How to Request Help.


Did you enable the --apply metadata post-processing feature by any chance?

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--apply metadata

The FileBot Xattr Metadata Scanners & Plug-ins for Plex uses .xattr folders to avoid cross-platform and cross-device limitations of native filesystem xattr.

[caspolerdu]

Thank you for the quick reply. It was the `--apply metadata` feature being enabled. I'm sorry for wasting your time.

Thank you very much for the software and support work! I really appreciate it!

[rednoah]

No worries. Ask anytime. Just make sure to paste command and console output next time so we can more easily see the goings-on.