Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:59:43 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][7/7] add xattr support to ramfs |
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:26:29PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 16:26, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:22:20PM -0400, James Morris wrote: > > > This patch adds xattr support to tmpfs, and a security xattr handler. > > > Original patch from: Chris PeBenito <pebenito@gentoo.org> > > > > What's the point on doing this for ramfs? And if you really want this > > the implementation could be shared with tmpfs easily and put into xattr.c > > For udev.
What's wrong with using a tmpfs for udev in such situations that xattrs are needed? udev does not require ramfs at all. In fact, why not just use a ext2 or ext3 partition for /dev instead today, if you really need it?
thanks,
greg k-h
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