Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] initramfs: add support for xattrs in the initial ram disk
From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Date: 2019-05-12 09:17:55
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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