On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 03:14:34PM +0800, Robert Yang wrote: > > The "mke2fs -d" doesn't copy the file's extended attributes into the > device currently, I'd like to make it work and submit a patch for it > if it is acceptable by e2fsprogs. Maybe we can add a "[-x xattr]" > option for "mke2fs -d" to make it copy the extended attributes. Any reason not to always copy the xattrs if they exist? If we want to add a new option for a feature like this which is fairly exotic, my preference would be to either use the -E mechanism and make it be an extended option, or to put it in /etc/mke2fs.conf. Regards, - Ted -- 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