[Libguestfs] guestmount support for acls/xattrs

[Sumedh Degaonkar]

Thanks Richard!

Appreciate your time. I will try this and let you know how it goes.

-Sumedh

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 07:51:16AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If it's ever unclear what libguestfs API calls are being made
> by guestmount (or other programs) you can set
>
> export LIBGUESTFS_TRACE=1
>
> before running the program.  See http://libguestfs.org/FAQ.html#debug
>
> Specifically for guestmount you can also get a lot more other debug by
> adding the -x or --trace option.
>
> Rich.
>
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