Re: [Libguestfs] guestmount support for acls/xattrs
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:35:04PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 06:17:46PM -0400, Sumedh Degaonkar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a vmdk having an LV with an ext3 FS where some files have extended
> attributes and acls set.
> These do not appear set while accessing them when mounted using guestmount.
> I do not know if it is easy or difficult to implement this, so I'd like to
> take your opinion.
>
> what I did was changed the default mount options in daemon/mount.c from
"ro"
> to "ro,acl,user_xattr". I figure that with this change, the filesystem
will
> be mounted with these options inside the appliance.
Sorry, the above is actually not going to work. guestmount
calls guestfs_mount_options, so you would have to modify
fish/options.c:mount_mps instead.
Rich.
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