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Re: e2fsprogs: Richacl support

To: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: e2fsprogs: Richacl support
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:17:04 -0400
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:46:49AM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> The filesystem sets the MS_POSIXACL super-block flag for POSIX ACLs or
> the MS_RICHACL super-block flag for richacls. These flags are checked
> with the IS_POSIXACL(inode) and IS_RICHACL(inode) macros.

Ah, OK.  So it's either one thing or another.

> I can send the validation code; not sure how removing corrupt xattrs
> would fit into e2fsck though. Can e2fsck remove individual xattrs?

Yep.  Using the libext2fs function ext2fs_xattr_remove(), in
lib/ext2fs/ext_attr.c.  This requires the development branch of
e2fsprogs, but by adding a new feature flag, richacl is going to
require a 1.43 version of e2fsprogs (not yet released, but hopefully
will be released soon).

                                                - Ted

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