From: Rob MacKinnon <c4blem0nkey@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: tmpfs support of xattrs?
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:27:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4902D885.6050303@gmail.com> (raw)
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The background: So during the initial configuration of a box I enabled
the xattr flags for ext3 and options of xattr in coreutils, and at the
time didn't realize that I'd hit a snag that would finally annoy me
enough after a month of getting a non-fatal error messages from cp "cp:
listing attributes of `/dev/null`: Invalid argument" to spend half a day
researching the cause and a potential solution.
Setup: udev mounts a tmpfs to /dev then fills it with device nodes.
Problem: the resulting tmpfs has no xattr support.
Therefore: Tmpfs without xattrs, and coreutils and everywhere else with
xattr support, cp freaks.
Is there sometime in the forseable future when the tmpfs module will
support for xattrs in the stable branch, or should I "holler at the
maintainers of coreutils to fix their broken code in cp". Even better
(and I like this option the most) a little of both?
- -- Rob
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next reply other threads:[~2008-10-25 8:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-25 8:27 Rob MacKinnon [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-25 8:49 tmpfs support of xattrs? Rob MacKinnon
2008-10-25 21:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-26 12:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-10-26 13:25 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2008-10-27 20:14 ` Rob MacKinnon
2008-10-27 20:25 ` Stephen Smalley
2008-10-27 20:53 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2008-10-27 21:12 ` Rob MacKinnon
2008-10-28 5:51 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-10-29 15:56 ` Rob MacKinnon
2008-10-29 16:12 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-10-27 21:00 ` Rob MacKinnon
2008-10-27 21:54 ` Casey Schaufler
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