linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] ovl: user xattr

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Date:   Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:50:34 +0300
From:   Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
To:     Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>
Cc:     "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        overlayfs <linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] ovl: user xattr

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 10:54 PM Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Optionally allow using "user.overlay" namespace instead
> of"trusted.overlay".
>
> This is necessary for overlayfs to be able to be mounted in an unprivileged
> namepsace.
>
> Make the option explicit, since it makes the filesystem format be
> incompatible.
>

Ach! this was tiring..
If you get to resubmit, please consider separating the plumbing
from the userxattr implementation.

Thanks,
Amir.