Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:49:28 -0700 | From | Rob MacKinnon <> | Subject | tmpfs support of xattrs? |
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The background: So during the initial configuration of a box I enabled the xattr flags for ext3 and options of xattr in coreutils, and at the time didn't realize that I'd hit a snag that would finally annoy me enough after a month of getting a non-fatal error messages from cp "cp: listing attributes of `/dev/null`: Invalid argument" to spend half a day researching the cause and a potential solution.
Setup: udev mounts a tmpfs to /dev then fills it with device nodes. Problem: the resulting tmpfs has no xattr support. Therefore: Tmpfs without xattrs, and coreutils and everywhere else with xattr support, cp freaks.
Is there sometime in the forseable future when the tmpfs module will support for xattrs in the stable branch, or should I "holler at the maintainers of coreutils to fix their broken code in cp". Even better (and I like this option the most) a little of both?
-- Rob
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