On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 03:34, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:11:39PM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > Transition from xfsroot attribute namespace to the more generic
> > trusted namespace which other filesystems are also supporting.
> >
> > * Note: xfsdump and xfsrestore are affected by a change in libattr
> > which deprecates the attribute name prefix "xfsroot", replacing
> > it with the generic "trusted" name. The environment variable
> > COMPAT_XFSROOT can be set in order to preserve the old behavior.
> > Users of new kernels should use this new attr-2.3.0 package.
>
> hmm, so what happens when one upgrades the kernel and xfsroot
> attributes exist on the filesystems ? (they do when a ACL is
> present iirc).
These name strings do not actually hit the disk at all, internally,
xfs strips them off. So all this does is change the string prefix
used by xfs to map to the different attribute domains.
Steve
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