On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:25 PM, André Ramaciotti da Silva <andre.ramaciotti@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm thinking of different ways to organize my files and xattrs seem a nice, standardized way to do so (don't ask me exactly what I'm trying to do, for I only have a slight idea).
The problem is: I can't use them at all. I'm using the default kernel, which, according to /proc/config.gz has:
CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR=y
and I'm using ext4, evidently.
I've tried doing the following:
$ echo 'asd' > test $ attr -s user.author -V andre test attr_set: Operation not supported Could not set "user.author" for test
but, as you can see, it doesn't work. Running it as root doesn't work, too. I've also made a small C program, but it also fails to set the xattr, returning ENOTSUP (operation not supported), so it isn't a problem with 'attr'.
I do have 'attr' from [core] installed so I don't know what else can be the problem.
Thanks in advance, Andre
man mount user_xattr / nouser_xattr Support "user." extended attributes (or not). sudo mount / -o remount,user_xattr or put it directly in fstab