On 12/19/14 01:51, James Taylor wrote:
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On 2014/12/19 17:08, Karl-Johan Karlsson wrote:
On Thu 18 Dec 2014 19.58.11 Anthony G. Basile wrote:
On 12/13/14 18:52, Karl-Johan Karlsson wrote:
So it works on ext4, but not ext3, even though both have the
ext_attr flag
on disk. Any difference in kernel support?
Because on ext3 you need to add user_xattr to the mount options. Either
`mount -o user_xattr` or in fstab in column 4 like this
/dev/sdb5 /tmp ext3 user_xattr 0 1
Its automatic on ext4. `man mount` for more info. Please let me know
if this works for you.
Aha! I was unaware of that mount option. mount(8) documents it, but is
unclear
on what the default value is. attr(5) says it's needed on ext2, ext3 and
reiserfs, but says nothing about ext4.
Unfortunately, the machine is in production, and since it works
without that
option when using the ext4 code to read ext3, I would prefer to leave
it alone
for now.
Would mount -oremount,user_xattr be an option? Or am I missing the point :)'
This would probably work.
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