I've just attempted to add a couple of Mac OSX ("Tiger" - yes, still...)
clients to our bacula system using the current 3.0.1 bacula-fd.

Backups on these clients have a couple of problems.  First, there's the
fact that they both choke to death a few GB into the initial Full backup
with a series of errors on a number of different files like this:

Error: xattr.c:415 Xattr stream on file "/Applications/AppleWorks
6/AppleWorks 6.app/Contents/MacOS/AppleWorks 6" exceeds maximum size of
1048576 bytes

At the end of this series of errors is:

JobId 13707: Fatal error: xattr.c:114 Network send error to SD.
ERR=Unknown error: 0

The other problem is that at this point the job has halted...but the
bacula director (also running 3.0.1, on Linux) believes the job to still
be running, clogging the job queue and holding up other jobs waiting to
use the storage or "waiting for higher-priority jobs to finish".

If I comment out xattrsupport=yes, the backup works fine.  But before I
complain I figured I should ask: is xattrsupport useful or necessary for
Mac OSX?  I know they support extended attributes and ACL, but does
"hfsplussupport=yes" cover that sort of thing on Macs?

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