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Message-ID: <20200529032505.GM228632@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 23:25:05 -0400 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> To: "Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke@....org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>, Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@...atchpost.org>, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@....org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: support xattr gnu.* namespace for the Hurd On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 09:39:40PM +0200, Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > The Hurd gained[0] support for moving the translator and author > fields out of the inode and into the "gnu.*" xattr namespace. > > In anticipation of that, an xattr INDEX was reserved[1]. The Hurd has > now been brought into compliance[2] with that. > > This patch adds support for reading and writing such attributes from > Linux; you can now do something like > > mkdir -p hurd-root/servers/socket > touch hurd-root/servers/socket/1 > setfattr --name=gnu.translator --value='"/hurd/pflocal\0"' \ > hurd-root/servers/socket/1 > getfattr --name=gnu.translator hurd-root/servers/socket/1 > # file: 1 > gnu.translator="/hurd/pflocal" > > to setup a pipe translator, which is being used to create[3] a > vm-image for the Hurd from GNU Guix. > > [0] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5869799859027968 > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3980bd3b406addb327d858aebd19e229ea340b9a > [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/commit/?id=a04c7bf83172faa7cb080fbe3b6c04a8415ca645 > [3] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=wip-hurd-vm This patch is missing a Signed-off-by. If you don't understand why this is really important, please read: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#sign-your-work-the-developer-s-certificate-of-origin Can you resubmit with the DCO or confirm that it's OK for me to add your Signed-off-by? - Ted
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