From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] e2fsprogs: enable user namespace xattrs by default Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:27:39 -0600 Message-ID: <4D5C252B.2010102@redhat.com> References: <4D5C1380.2020602@redhat.com> <4D5C15C6.5000802@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ext4 development To: Andreas Dilger Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:4415 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753115Ab1BPT1l (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:27:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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