Re: Building image fails on btrfs due to mkfs.erofs xattr limitation

[Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>]

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Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:

> On 7/5/25 04:52, Alyssa Ross wrote:
>> Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Unless extended attributes are disabled (with -x-1), mkfs.erofs
>>> fails when the source is a BTRFS filesystem.  This prevents the
>>> Spectrum image from being built.  Using -x-1 seems to produce a
>>> working installer, though I only smoke tested it (by trying the
>>> example VMs).
>> 
>> That's odd — I frequently run mkfs.erofs on btrfs.  Could it be some
>> difference in our filesystem/mount options?  Could it just be that my
>> files don't have extended attributes and yours do (SELinux)?
>
> Yeah, it might well be SELinux.  Spectrum should still build on
> systems with SELinux enabled, though.  Does Spectrum use extended
> attributes?  If not, would it make sense to disable them with -x-1?
> In the future, SELinux on the host will require fixing this, but
> for now it's better to fix the build error.

Yes, of course.  I just wanted to understand why it might be happening
for you and not to me.  Disabling extended attributes in mkfs.erofs
sounds like the right thing to do.

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