Re: [PATCH] Add new xattr test 532

[Eryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 09:46:23PM -0500, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Eryu Guan" <guaneryu@gmail.com>
> > To: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <lsahlber@redhat.com>
> > Cc: "fstests" <fstests@vger.kernel.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, 6 March, 2019 10:52:34 PM
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new xattr test 532
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> > On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 02:36:13PM +1000, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> > > This test is cloned from 097 but has had all the tests for trusted.*
> > > removed.
> > > This makes it possible to use this test on filesystems that can only
> > > provide user.* xattrs such as CIFS.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Sorry I missed your last patch of this clone..
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> No worries.  I will resend it later once I address Daves concerns.
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> > Do I need to do special setup for CIFS to support xattr? Currently I got
> > test _notrun because attrs are not supported by CIFS. I was mounting a
> > local samba server with
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> > -o vers=3.0 -o username=user,password=passwd,sfu -o
> > context=system_u:object_r:root_t:s0 //localhost/scratch /mnt/scratch
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> You don't need the 'sfu' mount option but you likely need to make sure you have the proper vfs modules loaded for samba:
> I use this on my share :
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> [Share]
> 	path = /Share
> 	read only = no
> 	guest ok = no
> 	vfs objects = acl_xattr, streams_xattr aio_pthread
> 	ea support = yes
> 	aio read size = 16384
> 	aio write size = 16384
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> I think the only important one is ea support = yes (the xattrs are stored as EAs)

I got xattr working on CIFS now, thanks!

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> > Kernel is 5.0.0-rc7.
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> > But instead of cloning all the user.* xattr tests, I think it's better
> > to split generic/097, leave all trusted.* xattr tests there and move all
> > user.* xattr tests to this new test. So we don't have to maintain two
> > copys of the same user.* xattr tests.

But it seems you missed above comments when sending new version of the
patch :)

Thanks,
Eryu