Re: XATTR_PAX, paxmark.sh, elog, icedtea, and maybe more

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.