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From: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:39:15 +0800
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 08/15] ocfs2: Add extended
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Hi, Tristan,

Ext3 support set xattr on symlink file, But not for user.* name space.
You can try setfattr -h -n trusted.name -v value symlinkfile and
getfattr -h -n trusted.name symlinkfile on ext3.

I will add this on our ocfs2.

Thanks,
tiger

tristan wrote:

> I agree,current VFS has exported an API lsetxattr which expects to set
> xattr on symlink directly without following it,unfortunately i did not
> see it was supported actually by ext3,and the same situation with our
> ocfs2.