[PATCH v2 0/3] initramfs: add support for xattrs in the initial ram disk

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On May 12, 2019 2:17:48 AM PDT, Dominik Brodowski <linux at dominikbrodowski.net> wrote:
>On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 01:24:17PM +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote:
>> This proposal consists in marshaling pathnames and xattrs in a file
>called
>> .xattr-list. They are unmarshaled by the CPIO parser after all files
>have
>> been extracted.
>
>Couldn't this parsing of the .xattr-list file and the setting of the
>xattrs
>be done equivalently by the initramfs' /init? Why is kernel involvement
>actually required here?
>
>Thanks,
>	Dominik

There are a lot of things that could/should be done that way...
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