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On 12/07/2011 05:10 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Friday 02 December 2011 00:16:43 Duncan wrote: |
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>> Longer: Does reiserfs (v3) support xattrs and thus, presumably caps and |
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>> XT_PAX? Kernel reiserfs options suggest yes, but everything I've read |
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>> elsewhere (including gentoo-dev caps project discussions) seems to |
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>> indicate no. Is the "no" simply outdated, since reiserfs xattrs support |
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>> was added relatively late in the game, or is it still correct and I have |
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>> the purpose of those kernel options all wrong, or ??? |
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> i found reiserfs useful in the ext2/ext3 days, but now i find it completely |
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> irrelevant with ext4 |
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>> If both reiserfs and tmpfs (my $PORTAGE_TMPDIR) support xattrs, both caps |
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>> and XT_PAX should be good to go, correct? |
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> my understanding of libattr/libacl is that the userland interface is FS |
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> independent. once the FS supports xattrs (if the kernel says it does, i'd |
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> believe that), then that should be all you need. |
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> while i've never tested xattrs on reiserfs (as alluded earlier, i've dropped |
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> all my reiserfs usage in favor of ext4), but i know tmpfs works (once you've |
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> enabled it in the kernel). |
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> -mike |
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I just tested with reiser3 and xattr works just fine. Just make sure |
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its enabled in the kernel and when you mount the fs use option |
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user_xattr for the user. namespace. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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