[Samba] Question Wiki Kernel support

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 17:29:41 UTC 2015


On 04/10/15 18:20, oeh univie edv lists wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I refer to
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Operating_system_requirements/File_system_support#ext4
>
> Wiki suggests:
> Ensure that your kernel has the following options enabled:
> CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR=y
> CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY=y
> CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
>
> My debian 8.2 installation was installed from netinstall CD, all updates
> applied. All my filesystems are ext4 and xattr and acl are not set, as
> they are default for ext4.
>
> 19:06:17 # more /boot/config-3.16.0-4-amd64 | grep CONFIG_EXT4
> CONFIG_EXT4_FS=m
> CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23=y
> CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
> CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY=y
> # CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG is not set
>
> After install of package attr tests with setfattr and getfattr succeed.
>
> Do I still need CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR=y ? If yes, how do I enable that in
> the kernel?
>
> kind regards, birgit
>

It would seem that 'CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR' is now one of the kernel 
defaults, see here:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=939da1084458246d2e29dd921c2012c177000e96

Rowland



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