Extended attributes
Extended attributes
Posted Jan 8, 2019 15:45 UTC (Tue) by mina86 (guest, #68442)In reply to: Extended attributes by quotemstr
Parent article: A setback for fs-verity
Changes to unlink(2) would break rm * though. E.g. if I run rm file file.xattr I’ll get an error deleting the second file since it got deleted transparently.
Posted Jan 9, 2019 17:16 UTC (Wed)
by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)
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Extended attributes
I was imagining that we'd keep the validation blobs in a separate hidden directory where normal user activity (e.g., "rm *") wouldn't find them.