On 2/16/11 1:15 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On 2011-02-16, at 11:21, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> User namespace xattrs are generally useful, and I think extN >> is the only filesystem requiring a special mount option to >> enable them, when xattrs are otherwise available. So this >> change sets that mount option into the defaults. >> >> Note that if xattrs are config'd off, this will lead to a >> mostly-harmless: >> >> EXT4-fs (sdc1): (no)user_xattr options not supported >> >> message at mount time... > > Wouldn't it be more useful to change this in the kernel, instead of only changing it in the superblock for new filesystems? > > Cheers, Andreas I thought about that; maybe it should happen in both places? -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
