Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 May 2019 11:17:48 +0200 | From | Dominik Brodowski <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] initramfs: add support for xattrs in the initial ram disk |
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On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 01:24:17PM +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote: > This proposal consists in marshaling pathnames and xattrs in a file called > .xattr-list. They are unmarshaled by the CPIO parser after all files have > been extracted.
Couldn't this parsing of the .xattr-list file and the setting of the xattrs be done equivalently by the initramfs' /init? Why is kernel involvement actually required here?
Thanks, Dominik
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