Issues with UBIFS xattr support

Tim timasyk at gmail.com
Thu Feb 5 01:49:23 EST 2009


I found that UBIFS does not fully support xattr manipulation.

I use security context files labeling (in SELinux) that heavily relies
on proper manipulation of xattr by the filesystem.
And issues are:
- ubifs does not store xattr in inode for symbolic link files;
- if new file is created on ubifs, xattr should be automatically
updated with security context label, but it does not.

Maybe there is a patch that fixes those issues already?

Kindest regards,
Tim



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