[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 08/15] ocfs2: Add extended attribute support v2

Tiger Yang tiger.yang at oracle.com
Thu Jul 17 02:34:01 PDT 2008


Hi, Mark,

> Btw, neither this, nor any of the other code seems to take symlinks into
> account. As far as I can tell, it's valid to set xattrs on a symlink. Is
> this correct? If so, we need to handle fast symlinks and also symlinks with
> extents. Though I suppose symlinks using extents probably don't need any
> extra work since they otherwise look like regular files.

Could I do not put xattr inline when I found its a fast symlink? This 
could make the question simple.

Best regards,
tiger



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