On 18 Dec 2014 at 19:58, Anthony G. Basile 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. Is that in the Pax_Quickstart? If not we should > add it.
FYI, we now enable user xattr support on those filesystems where it wasn't the default before (ext2/ext3/reiser), nouser_xattr still works of course.
