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On 12/19/14 01:51, James Taylor wrote: |
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> On 2014/12/19 17:08, Karl-Johan Karlsson wrote: |
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>> On Thu 18 Dec 2014 19.58.11 Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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>>> On 12/13/14 18:52, Karl-Johan Karlsson wrote: |
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>>>> So it works on ext4, but not ext3, even though both have the |
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> ext_attr flag |
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>>>> on disk. Any difference in kernel support? |
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>>> Because on ext3 you need to add user_xattr to the mount options. Either |
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>>> `mount -o user_xattr` or in fstab in column 4 like this |
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>>> /dev/sdb5 /tmp ext3 user_xattr 0 1 |
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>>> Its automatic on ext4. `man mount` for more info. Please let me know |
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>>> if this works for you. |
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>> Aha! I was unaware of that mount option. mount(8) documents it, but is |
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> unclear |
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>> on what the default value is. attr(5) says it's needed on ext2, ext3 and |
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>> reiserfs, but says nothing about ext4. |
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>> Unfortunately, the machine is in production, and since it works |
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> without that |
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>> option when using the ext4 code to read ext3, I would prefer to leave |
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> it alone |
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>> for now. |
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> Would mount -oremount,user_xattr be an option? Or am I missing the point :)' |
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This would probably work. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. |
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Chair of Information Technology |
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D'Youville College |
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