FreeFileSync Forum

But KDE Dolphin doesn't do it. :P

There was a bug report and a work-in-progress patch not too long ago, but it's still unfinished sadly. There's even a bug bounty for it too. Anyway, this is out of topic as it is not related to FFS.

I don't think FreeFileSync uses `cp` in its backend (as a sub-process), rather a library that does system calls directly.

Haven't noticed this feature being implemented yet but I could be wrong.

In the meantime, I've been using rsync. Not as handy, no nice GUI, but it works.

It would be really perfect if FreeFileSync would preserve extended file attributes (xattr) when copying files over on common Linux file systems (Ext2,3,4, zfs, etc.) . rsync does this, cp -a does this, the Thunar file manager does it. Have you considered implementing this? Do you guys accept pull re...