linux-ext4 - Re: nouser

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Message-Id: <B31D6A1E-507D-454B-88CF-E488153588BD@dilger.ca>
Date:	Sat, 26 May 2012 10:52:54 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
To:	"Brett M. Royles" <brett@...les.co.uk>
Cc:	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: nouser_xattr

On 2012-05-26, at 5:09, "Brett M. Royles" <brett@...les.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I have just spotted in my log files that nouser_xattr will be removed.
> 
> I think it should be kept in as I currently use that option to ensure
> that my / partition (which is on a ssd) is mounted without user_xattr to
> stop some writes to it.  If I don't specify nouser_xattr the / partition
> automatically gets mounted with user_xattr. 
> 
> Will there be any other way to ensure that a partition is mounted
> without user_xattr?

This is a permanent mount option stored in the superblock. It should be possible to change this at format time or via tune2fs for existing filesystems.

Please check the man pages, I don't have them handy at the moment. 

Cheers, Andreas--
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