Bug 450364

Description of problem:

I have a backup script I use to backup my file systems with incremental backups.
 The script works very well with Fedora 8, but it bombs completely with Fedora 9.

The errors from rsync are:

rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
[receiver] internal abbrev error!
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at xattrs.c(565)
[receiver=3.0.2]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (1694 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(635)
[sender=3.0.2]


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

100% on my system.  I have not figured out reproduce steps which don't use my
external disk and file systems created with Fedora 8...   The following is the
command I execute:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mkdir -p /media/backups
2. mount /dev/sdb1 /media/backups
3. mkdir -p /media/backups/hartnell.local/DellPrecision490/Fedora8/20080606.dir
4. mkdir -p /dev/shm/lvbackup/src
5. mount /dev/DellPrecision/Fedora8 /dev/sdm/lvbackup/src/. 
6. rsync -aXHSA --delete
--link-dest=/media/backups/hartnell.local/DellPrecision490/Fedora8/20080527.dir
/dev/shm/lvbackup/src/.
/media/backups/hartnell.local/DellPrecision490/Fedora8/20080606.dir/.
  
Actual results:

rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
[receiver] internal abbrev error!
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at xattrs.c(565)
[receiver=3.0.2]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (1694 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(635)
[sender=3.0.2]

Expected results:

Successful backup.

Additional info:

The backup works without the -X option.  But then the seLinux attributes are not
backed-up, making the restore extremely difficult.