On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 18:00:24 +1000, Russell Coker said:
On Sunday 12 June 2005 23:23, Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu wrote:
> The data will be readable off any box that supports ext3 and extended
> attributes (I can't remember what happens if the kernel doesn't do the
> extended attributes - whether it won't mount, or it mounts-and-ignores).
> At worst, you'd need to drop to 'permissive' mode and/or restorecon.
Code to support XATTRs in Ext2/3 has been there for quite a while. Code that
works properly (and base Ext2/3 code that has no bugs related to this) is a
bit newer.
I was thinking more along the lines of somebody who had build themselves a custom
kernel that had CONFIG_EXT[23]_FS_XATTR disabled