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Re: Inconsistent filesystem EA on the various runners



On Thursday, April 17th, 2025 at 7:34 PM, Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> wrote:

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> Hi Daniel,
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> On 17-04-2025 19:26, Daniel Markstedt wrote:
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> > This is surprising to me since EA is a built-in feature of ext4.
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> Most testbeds have their filesystem on tmpfs. I assume that's your problem?
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> Paul

Hi Paul,

Thanks for this, and for the follow-up conversation on IRC.

To summarize a few notes so far:

The docs* suggest that tmpfs can do EA for certain namespaces, so it should not be the (only) reason for this issue

* https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/tmpfs.html

The pattern is 100% consistent over numerous uploads that precisely arm64, riscv64, and s390x is able to deal with EA and the other not. It's not an intermittent problem.

The following shell command should roughly emulate what netatalk does in C code with system calls:

sudo setfattr -n user.org.netatalk.has-Extended-Attributes -v yes /path/to/existing/dir/or/file

This requires the "attr" package to be installed.

Please let me know if you want me back on IRC for a follow-up session later. :)

Best,
Daniel

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