beagle backup (user_xattr)

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Wed Mar 8 08:21:19 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 17:15 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> > >(BTW, the filesystem is being mounted with -o user_xattr).
> > >
> > thats the reason, by default filesystems are not mounted with user_xattr
> > (why?)
> 
> Yes... Any good reason for not doing so?

Beagle was added sort of late in the cycle, and changing the default
mount options needs changes in anaconda etc, so we (the desktop team)
really hasn't been pushing this. At some point we should sit down with
the installer people and the kernel filesystem people and figure out if
and when we should set user_xattr.

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