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Re: TAKE - attr-2.3.0, add trusted namespace into XFS

To: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TAKE - attr-2.3.0, add trusted namespace into XFS
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:56:57 +1100
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>, Ethan Benson <erbenson@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 03:39:19PM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 15:37, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 04:32:23AM -0600, Stephen Lord wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > So if I boot to an older kernel and have newer userspace I loose?

Uh, what do you think you will loose?

> Yep, unless you use the environment variable Nathan mentioned
> in his original message (I do not have it here, but I seem to
> remember him mentioning one for backwards compatibility).

COMPAT_XFSROOT.

-- 
Nathan


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