From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: system xattrs in gfs2 Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:39:01 +0200 Message-ID: <20090926163901.GA17978@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Steven Whitehouse Return-path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:34020 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752731AbZIZQjJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:39:09 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.