Hello Janneke, On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 09:41:27AM +0200, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > The Hurd gained[0] support for moving the translator and author > fields out of the inode and into the "gnu.*" xattr namespace. > > In anticipation of that, an xattr INDEX was reserved[1]. The Hurd has > now been brought into compliance[2] with that, and so has ext4[3].
can you please explain why is this change needed in the first place? AFAICT tar does not hardcode any xattr namespace (except "user"), so it should support "gnu" out of the box. Is there anything that does not work for you? Regards, Pavel
