Lustre sources raise xattr errors during restic backup
Backups from Lustre sources hit 'numerical result out of range' errors on hundreds of extended attributes, and the errors grow over time.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 24 September 2026 · last reported 8 October 2026
What's going wrong
People who back up data stored on a Lustre parallel filesystem with restic report that extended attribute reads start failing on a growing number of files, even though the same backups ran cleanly for months.
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