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

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Jul 15 20:21:38 UTC 2015


Dear Matthew Weber,

On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 12:12:36 -0500, Matthew Weber wrote:

> > 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.

Why is this needed? Can you generate those security attributes at build
time?

Thanks,

Thomas
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