On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 01:24:17PM +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote: > This proposal consists in marshaling pathnames and xattrs in a file called > .xattr-list. They are unmarshaled by the CPIO parser after all files have > been extracted. Couldn't this parsing of the .xattr-list file and the setting of the xattrs be done equivalently by the initramfs' /init? Why is kernel involvement actually required here? Thanks, Dominik