Re: [PATCH 03/24] generic/607: don't break on filesystems that don't support FSGETXATTR on dirs

Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-17T07:53:07Z

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 08:56:20PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Oops, sorry, I was reading the wrong VM report. It's overlayfs (atop
> xfs though I don't think that matters) that doesn't support FSGETXATTR
> on directories.

I think we should overlayfs to support FSGETXATTR on all files that
can be opened instead.