linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/2 V2] e2fsprogs: enable user namespace xattrs by default

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Message-ID: <4D629A32.1030708@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:00:34 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
CC:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 V2] e2fsprogs: enable user namespace xattrs by default

On 2/20/11 5:31 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 03:56:17PM -0600, 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, via a
>> mke2fs.conf option.
>>
>> 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... 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
> 
> You didn't run "make check" before submitting these patches.  Please
> do so in the future!  :-)
> 
> I'll fix up the expected test commit results for these two commits.
> 
>      	    		      	     	     - Ted

Argh sorry.  Out of practice I guess.

Thanks,
-Eric
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