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From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: system xattrs in gfs2
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:24:24 +0100
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Hi,

On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 18:39 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> It looks like GFS2 allows userspace to set any system xattr, while
> the other filesystems limit it to the two posix ACL xattrs.  I think
> you'd be better off staying in line with the rest - should be
> fairly easy after my xattr handler cleanups.

Yes, I agree. In fact I started working on a patch to fix this on
Friday. I have about half of a patch so far, so I hope it won't be too
long before this can be fixed,

Steve.