Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern

[Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>]

I was thinking of doing that too. The problem is that we don't have a standard way to pass feedback to the user why the mount fail, and returning EINVAL seems suboptimal. It also changes the current semantics.

christos

> On Aug 19, 2019, at 6:35 PM, Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> wrote:
> 
>    Date:        Mon, 19 Aug 2019 05:32:42 -0400
>    From:        "Christos Zoulas" <christos%netbsd.org@localhost>
>    Message-ID:  <20190819093242.88152FBF4%cvs.NetBSD.org@localhost>
> 
>  | Log Message:
>  | If we could not start extattr for some reason, don't advertise extattr
>  | in the mount.
> 
> I would have expected a better result would be that if an attempt is
> made to mount with extattr turned on, and extattr is not available, then
> the mount would fail, rather than succeeding with exattr missing.
> 
> kre