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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] e2fsprogs: enable user namespace xattrs by default
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:27:39 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5C252B.2010102@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C637E27A-6E13-4950-B4CC-0451FDB421B9@dilger.ca>

On 2/16/11 1:15 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On 2011-02-16, at 11:21, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> User namespace xattrs are generally useful, and I think extN
>> is the only filesystem requiring a special mount option to
>> enable them, when xattrs are otherwise available.  So this
>> change sets that mount option into the defaults.
>>
>> Note that if xattrs are config'd off, this will lead to a
>> mostly-harmless:
>>
>>   EXT4-fs (sdc1): (no)user_xattr options not supported
>>
>> message at mount time... 
> 
> Wouldn't it be more useful to change this in the kernel, instead of only changing it in the superblock for new filesystems?
> 
> Cheers, Andreas

I thought about that; maybe it should happen in both places?

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-16 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-16 18:12 [PATCH 0/2] e2fsprogs: update mkfs defaults Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 18:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] e2fsprogs: turn off enforced fsck intervals by default Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 18:24   ` Lukas Czerner
2011-02-16 19:12     ` Amir Goldstein
2011-02-16 22:55   ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-17 21:55   ` [PATCH 1/2 V2] " Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 18:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] e2fsprogs: enable user namespace xattrs " Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 19:15   ` Andreas Dilger
2011-02-16 19:27     ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2011-02-16 21:49       ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-16 21:53         ` Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 22:56           ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-16 22:58             ` Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 23:01               ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-17 21:56   ` [PATCH 2/2 V2] " Eric Sandeen
2011-02-20 23:31     ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-21 17:00       ` Eric Sandeen
2011-02-16 22:12 ` [PATCH 0/2] e2fsprogs: update mkfs defaults Andreas Dilger
2011-02-16 22:37   ` Eric Sandeen

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