[Libguestfs] guestmount support for acls/xattrs

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Sat Mar 26 07:51:16 UTC 2011


On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:35:04PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 06:17:46PM -0400, Sumedh Degaonkar wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a vmdk having an LV with an ext3 FS where some files have extended
> > attributes and acls set.
> > These do not appear set while accessing them when mounted using guestmount.
> > I do not know if it is easy or difficult to implement this, so I'd like to
> > take your opinion.
> > 
> > what I did was changed the default mount options in daemon/mount.c from "ro"
> > to "ro,acl,user_xattr". I figure that with this change, the filesystem will
> > be mounted with these options inside the appliance.

Sorry, the above is actually not going to work.  guestmount
calls guestfs_mount_options, so you would have to modify
fish/options.c:mount_mps instead.

Rich.

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