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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 10:50:02AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> 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).

I've added this issue to the virtio-fs issue tracker:

https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/qemu/issues/15

Stefan
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