2013/8/7 MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka at gmail.com>: > I've not ever seen the error with attr. Probably, sheep failed to get > a correct disk space from the directory? I plugged back the disk. Now that the directory is not empty anymore I get this: root at sheepdog001:~# attr -g md.size /mnt/sheep/dsk01/obj | hd 00000000 41 74 74 72 69 62 75 74 65 20 22 6d 64 2e 73 69 |Attribute "md.si| 00000010 7a 65 22 20 68 61 64 20 61 20 38 20 62 79 74 65 |ze" had a 8 byte| 00000020 20 76 61 6c 75 65 20 66 6f 72 20 2f 6d 6e 74 2f | value for /mnt/| 00000030 73 68 65 65 70 2f 64 73 6b 30 31 2f 6f 62 6a 3a |sheep/dsk01/obj:| 00000040 0a 00 c0 0a 80 29 00 00 00 0a |.....)....| 0000004a For curiosity I tried also this: root at sheepdog001:~# mkdir /tmp/empty root at sheepdog001:~# attr -g md.size /tmp/empty/ | hd attr_get: Nessun dato disponibile Could not get "md.size" for /tmp/empty/ The message is different tough. |