On May 12, 2019 2:17:48 AM PDT, Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >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 There are a lot of things that could/should be done that way... -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
