Is it possible to enable xattr on tmpfs

asked 2014-05-05 05:26:09 -0500

Frederick Roth

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I want to enable xattr on tmpfs as I run unit-tests on my machine which require xattr to run correctly.

Is this possible?

How can I achieve it?

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answered 2014-05-06 06:52:55 -0500

joshuar
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According to the mount(8) manpage, it doesn't look like tmpfs supports extended attributes. However, you might be able to emulate what you need using the context and related mount options, see the explanation of this option in the manpage (under FILESYSTEM INDEPENDENT MOUNT OPTIONS).

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Thanks! The context mount option does not work for me as I want to set and read xattr at runtime on different files. But now I am quite sure that I have to run the tests against another folder...

Frederick Roth ( 2014-05-06 07:39:31 -0500 )edit

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