Fwd: problem with extended attributes

[Niels de Vos]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 03:59:59PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
...
> anybody an idea?
> 
> [root at fileserver:~]$ setfattr -n harry -v test /mnt/storage/test
> setfattr: /mnt/storage/test: Operation not supported

Try this:
$ setfattr -n user.harry -v test /mnt/storage/test

xattrs can be in the security (set by kernel), trusted (set by root) or 
user (set by users) prefixes. A xattrs "harry" is invalid and the kernel 
correctly tells you that setting that xattr is not supported. (Maybe 
some filesystems allow these uncommon names, but it is better to not use 
them.)

HTH,
Niels