The statement "I've added it to partman upstream as an option for ext2, ext3, and reiserfs" implies that something needed to be done, i.e., the bug was confirmed.
** Changed in: partman-basicfilesystems (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- can't user_xattr be added to the mount options in manual disk config https://launchpad.net/bugs/15523 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs