linux-kernel - Re: Unionmount status?

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Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:18:43 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...trum.cz>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@...il.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Ian Kent <ikent@...hat.com>, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Unionmount status?

On 2011-04-15, at 6:29 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Apparently tmpfs does not support generic xattr.  I understand why
> tmpfs is an attractive choice for an upper filesystem, so this should
> be addressed.
> 
> I see two options here:
> 
> 1) implement generic xattr in tmpfs

There was a patch posted recently to add xattr support to tmpfs, so that it can use security labels:

From: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tmpfs: implement xattr support for the entire security namespace
Date: March 29, 2011 12:56:49 PM MDT

Cheers, Andreas





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