From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>,
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: support xattr gnu.* namespace for the Hurd
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 23:25:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200529032505.GM228632@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200525193940.878-1-janneke@gnu.org>
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 09:39:40PM +0200, Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> The Hurd gained[0] support for moving the translator and author
> fields out of the inode and into the "gnu.*" xattr namespace.
>
> In anticipation of that, an xattr INDEX was reserved[1]. The Hurd has
> now been brought into compliance[2] with that.
>
> This patch adds support for reading and writing such attributes from
> Linux; you can now do something like
>
> mkdir -p hurd-root/servers/socket
> touch hurd-root/servers/socket/1
> setfattr --name=gnu.translator --value='"/hurd/pflocal\0"' \
> hurd-root/servers/socket/1
> getfattr --name=gnu.translator hurd-root/servers/socket/1
> # file: 1
> gnu.translator="/hurd/pflocal"
>
> to setup a pipe translator, which is being used to create[3] a
> vm-image for the Hurd from GNU Guix.
>
> [0] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5869799859027968
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3980bd3b406addb327d858aebd19e229ea340b9a
> [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/commit/?id=a04c7bf83172faa7cb080fbe3b6c04a8415ca645
> [3] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=wip-hurd-vm
This patch is missing a Signed-off-by. If you don't understand why
this is really important, please read:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#sign-your-work-the-developer-s-certificate-of-origin
Can you resubmit with the DCO or confirm that it's OK for me to add your Signed-off-by?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-29 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-25 19:39 [PATCH v2] ext4: support xattr gnu.* namespace for the Hurd Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen
2020-05-29 3:25 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2020-05-29 8:39 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-06-12 17:38 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
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