Re: performance of filesystem xattrs with Samba4

From: James Morris
Date: Fri Nov 19 2004 - 03:08:58 EST


On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 tridge@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> The tmpfs+xattr failure above is because tmpfs didn't seem to allow
> user xattrs, despite having CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR=y.

tmpfs does not have a 'user' xattr handler. xattr support was added to
tmpfs only to provide a 'security' xattr handler which calls out to LSM
modules such as SELinux.


- James
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James Morris
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