Re: Unionmount status?

[Andreas Dilger]

On 2011-04-15, at 6:29 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Apparently tmpfs does not support generic xattr.  I understand why
> tmpfs is an attractive choice for an upper filesystem, so this should
> be addressed.
> 
> I see two options here:
> 
> 1) implement generic xattr in tmpfs

There was a patch posted recently to add xattr support to tmpfs, so that it can use security labels:

From: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] tmpfs: implement xattr support for the entire security namespace
Date: March 29, 2011 12:56:49 PM MDT

Cheers, Andreas





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