[Virtio-fs] [PATCH] virtiofsd: Enable xattr support by default

[Vivek Goyal]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 04:42:46PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 4:24 PM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Enable xattr support by default. Currently it is disabled by defaut
> > and that makes getfattr/setfattr fail in guest.
> 
> I think the reason this was disabled by default is that it's a
> significant performance hit for "ls" due to missing xattr caching.
> Not sure how much it affects other workloads.
> 

Aha... so this is intentional and not just an oversight. So maybe we can
leave it disabled by default for now and let people enable it as need be
(-o xattr).

Thanks
Vivek