On 2014/12/19 17:08, Karl-Johan Karlsson wrote: > On Thu 18 Dec 2014 19.58.11 Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> On 12/13/14 18:52, Karl-Johan Karlsson 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. > > Aha! I was unaware of that mount option. mount(8) documents it, but is > unclear > on what the default value is. attr(5) says it's needed on ext2, ext3 and > reiserfs, but says nothing about ext4. > > Unfortunately, the machine is in production, and since it works without that > option when using the ext4 code to read ext3, I would prefer to leave it > alone > for now.
Would mount -oremount,user_xattr be an option? Or am I missing the point :) P.S. Sorry for my garbled reply earlier, seems I'd forgotten to set Enigmail up properly.
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