From: David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Tao Ma <tm@tao.ma>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: RFC: remove CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:28:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121206192804.GA15506@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121206034842.GA21009@thunk.org>
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 10:48:42PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:33:10AM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> > To be frank, I didn't try the inline data test without xattr support. So
> > that would be great if we remove it. :)
> >
> > btw, does any distribution disable xattr support during kernel build? As
> > Eric said on behalf of redhat, and in my ubuntu box xattr is enabled.
> > Would Jan confirm that SUSE also use it by default?
>
> I'm pretty sure SuSE enables it, since SELinux requires it, and SuSE
> supports it.
>
> I'm more concerned with various embedded use cases, which is why I
> measured how much additional text/data space xattr support enables
> (which was only 27k, so I doubt that would be an issue in most
> embedded use cases --- hmm.... I've just checked a Nexus 4 kernel
> config and it enables CONFIG_FS_EXT4_XATTR; I'm not sure Android is
> actually using xattrs at all at the moment, but it's certainly
> enabled).
As far as I know, it's enabled in all Android kernels that use ext4.
(at least once I grepped for CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR)
Arch linux has started using capabilities in some packages, which will
also require this.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-06 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-05 22:35 RFC: remove CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR Theodore Ts'o
2012-12-05 23:04 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-12-06 1:33 ` Tao Ma
2012-12-06 3:48 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-12-06 19:28 ` David Brown [this message]
2012-12-06 10:26 ` Jan Kara
2012-12-10 6:19 ` [PATCH] ext4: Remove CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR Tao Ma
2012-12-10 10:08 ` Jan Kara
2012-12-10 15:11 ` [PATCH V2] " Tao Ma
2012-12-10 19:21 ` [PATCH] " Theodore Ts'o
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