[Buildroot] [PATCH v7 20/22] squashfs: Add xattr support

[Matthew Weber]

Thomas,

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Clayton,
>
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:54:28 -0500, Clayton Shotwell wrote:
>
>> I would really like to know what I was thinking when I put this patch
>> together because you are completely correct on how terrible this is. I
>> looked back at it and I don't believe the host xattr support should be
>> enabled at all. There are too many host dependencies, unrelated to the
>> xattr package, that need to be met for this to work properly (think
>> extended attributes on the filesystem itself). I am going to drop the
>> host changes and only enable this for the target (where I am actually
>> looking to use it).
>
> No problem. However, I'm curious to know what is your use case: you are
> preparing a SquashFS image on your target?

We build a x86 SELinux enabled qemu target that repackages our target
filesystems with pre-labelled security attributes.  Sort of a sandbox
approach.


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