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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:43:17 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com> To: rokr@...mes-softlab.com CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: reading user. extended attributes from symlinks in 2.6 kernels Rok Ruzic wrote: > Hello, > > I have an XFS filesystem containing files and symlinks with application-specific EAs in the user namespace. The files, symlinks and their EAs were created while running a 2.4 kernel. > > In 2.6 kernels access to user EAs was prevented for symlinks. My problem is that i have to upgrade the kernel from 2.4 to 2.6 series and i have to have access to all the EAs after upgrade. Is there a way to read user EAs off of symlinks on an XFS filesystem on a 2.6 kernel either from userspace or from a filter driver sitting between VFS and XFS filesystem code? > > I would appreciate it very much if somebody could point me towards a solution. > If you want to do it at user code level, you could note the symlink, follow it to the "real" name, and read the EA there. I don't see any easy way to force the kernel to follow the symlink. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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