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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:59:43 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][7/7] add xattr support to ramfs
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:26:29PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 16:26, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:22:20PM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> > > This patch adds xattr support to tmpfs, and a security xattr handler.
> > > Original patch from: Chris PeBenito <pebenito@gentoo.org>
> > 
> > What's the point on doing this for ramfs?  And if you really want this
> > the implementation could be shared with tmpfs easily and put into xattr.c
> 
> For udev.

What's wrong with using a tmpfs for udev in such situations that xattrs
are needed?  udev does not require ramfs at all.  In fact, why not just
use a ext2 or ext3 partition for /dev instead today, if you really need
it?

thanks,

greg k-h


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