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Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main



On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 21:33 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Dec 2017, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > Do most of our file systems have extended attributes turned on
> > > > by now?
> > > 
> > > I think (or at least hope) so.
> > 
> > Yes, xattrs are supported in most filesystems on Linux and our official
> > kernel packages enable them wherever they're an optional feature.
[...]
> The most worrisome absence in that list being tmpfs :-(

That's only because it lives in mm/shmem.c, not under fs/.  It does
support xattrs.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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