From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0CFD732D0CF for ; Mon, 18 May 2026 06:35:11 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1779086115; cv=none; b=qloacDm6zyEzuRClGkBxl4NK8S4h6miMj7vPfJeLHLi4F/f7YNWhInD8eO8Qbf6L8BrcH3b6p2Q/Z0EPPp6IUvCTQyh0YoVG/qBodg7AkST7MWRA63E7d25Q//F5UGAYrHMm5DWgVaGHTvndzQ+0j+S1CTs3snyj3EeMT3l7rns= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1779086115; c=relaxed/simple; bh=QXRb1Sgr8gnO9HeET9AYbM63NiZ9FlIGsrgK3YqIuBQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=gXLpRkOkd5yzKZEkw/3koZBFIZ4qHet8EH6OR/ngRMwLXdOh+t4xkDe3G7/a5XYA6g6UERL6juaHysFgM7EGEfw8agxnvHoFdUZ0XFBJaU0D7lKfqFTEbnsMyepTXoLVWlgseE4HExrU/jX4nfOeLBHBNAcxXfKG0g5Fe2z9fq0= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=tRr2S94V; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="tRr2S94V" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=J/C0N+arb+m+gSg/I2si7mCdkIVLE2rJyxV1HRZw6aU=; b=tRr2S94V/9gzkNxaEsZigw7CRn ByDQdsauaw8n8Rw+ZzhUJrUF8Nep+ykQ3Pym0rdPeSuD30iHYhuzyWCTMr9y381AMGBrjZkiMb52U Wtr8ynjQcVsHrGspB55IwyZ0We+wgvtXb7cnzPztQwsn5DrlixMUZeqvuW1rfptGEQlh4KqMMF0g0 42nUDqRFZlddhLdXlqS6D1T57VENE/rzvBYEdmE9FZ97zbWMUEhKuu8B/GYFNJZm9FUeuWknKvPzO LYDiwUH2FnnayMhb4kMAMzWDCJOUcU2bwdNCmsjoGYGyMTW/oSsGTPQCDHPN8Ngpz71JNecyEOjkj h4ACJO9Q==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.99.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1wOrZE-0000000ERUo-2GCU; Mon, 18 May 2026 06:35:08 +0000 Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 23:35:08 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Janneke Nieuwenhuizen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Hugh Dickins , Baolin Wang , Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= , Rutger van Beusekom Subject: Re: [PATCH] shmem: support xattr gnu.* namespace for the Hurd Message-ID: References: <87se7stpgy.fsf@gnu.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87se7stpgy.fsf@gnu.org> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 09:58:05PM +0200, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > >From d8291d06b67db045033664fb440f59001d7755a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Janneke Nieuwenhuizen > Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 10:12:30 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] shmem: support xattr gnu.* namespace for the Hurd > > The Hurd gained[0] support for moving the translator and author > fields out of the inode and into the "gnu.*" xattr namespace. > > In anticipation of that, an xattr INDEX was reserved[1]. The Hurd has > now been brought into compliance[2] with that, and so has ext4[3]. > > This patch adds support for reading and writing such attributes from > a Linux tmpfs; you can now do something like No, making bootstrapping a hobbyist OS is not a good reason to bloat the Linux kernel. Please patch your bootstrapping code to just use a user xattr instead.