Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] initramfs: introduce do_readxattrs()

[Arvind Sankar]

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 01:18:11PM -0700, h...@zytor.com wrote:
> 
> Ok... I just realized this does not work for a modular initramfs, composed at 
> load time from multiple files, which is a very real problem. Should be easy 
> enough to deal with: instead of one large file, use one companion file per 
> source file, perhaps something like filename..xattrs (suggesting double dots 
> to make it less likely to conflict with a "real" file.) No leading dot, as it 
> makes it more likely that archivers will sort them before the file proper.
This version of the patch was changed from the previous one exactly to deal 
with this case --
it allows for the bootloader to load multiple initramfs archives, each
with its own .xattr-list file, and to have that work properly.
Could you elaborate on the issue that you see?