nouser_xattr

nouser_xattr

[Brett M. Royles]

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Hi there,

I have just spotted in my log files that nouser_xattr will be removed.

I think it should be kept in as I currently use that option to ensure
that my / partition (which is on a ssd) is mounted without user_xattr to
stop some writes to it.  If I don't specify nouser_xattr the / partition
automatically gets mounted with user_xattr. 

Will there be any other way to ensure that a partition is mounted
without user_xattr?

(I could have missed something totally obvious tho :P )

Thanks,

Brett

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Re: nouser_xattr

[Andreas Dilger]

On 2012-05-26, at 5:09, "Brett M. Royles" <brett@royles.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I have just spotted in my log files that nouser_xattr will be removed.
> 
> I think it should be kept in as I currently use that option to ensure
> that my / partition (which is on a ssd) is mounted without user_xattr to
> stop some writes to it.  If I don't specify nouser_xattr the / partition
> automatically gets mounted with user_xattr. 
> 
> Will there be any other way to ensure that a partition is mounted
> without user_xattr?

This is a permanent mount option stored in the superblock. It should be possible to change this at format time or via tune2fs for existing filesystems.

Please check the man pages, I don't have them handy at the moment. 

Cheers, Andreas