[PATCH] mkfs.ubifs: make failure to list extended attributes quiet and non-fatal
David Oberhollenzer
david.oberhollenzer at sigma-star.at
Mon Oct 23 14:58:12 PDT 2017
Hi,
On 10/20/2017 09:28 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> mkfs.ubifs treats all errors returned by llistxattr() except ENOENT as
> fatal. In particular, if the host system doesn't support extended
> attributes, mkfs.ubifs would fail. It happens even without any flags that
> would explicitly request extended attribute support.
>
Would it also work if we simply extended the check you patched to
test for ENOTSUP in addition?
Thanks,
David
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