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    allow in-inode EAs on ext4 root inode · 0040d987
    Eric Sandeen authored
    
    
    The ext3 root inode was treated specially with respect
    to in-inode extended attributes, for reasons detailed
    in the removed comment below.  The first mkfs-created
    inodes would not get extra_i_size or the EXT3_STATE_XATTR
    flag set in ext3_read_inode, which disallowed reading or
    setting in-inode EAs on the root.
    
    However, in ext4, ext4_mark_inode_dirty calls
    ext4_expand_extra_isize for all inodes; once this is done
    EAs may be placed in the root ext4 inode body.
    
    But for reasons above, it won't be found after a reboot.
    
    testcase:
    
    setfattr -n user.name -v value mntpt/
    setfattr -n user.name2 -v value2 mntpt/
    umount mntpt/; remount mntpt/
    getfattr -d mntpt/
    
    name2/value2 has gone missing; debugfs shows it in the
    inode body, but it is not found there by getattr.
    
    The following fixes it up; newer mkfs appears to properly
    zero the inodes, so this workaround isn't needed for ext4.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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