[Bug 43954] setfattr always returns "Operation Not Supported"

[Christian Holtje]

Public bug reported:

Running "setfattr -n fish -v test SOMEFILE" always returns "Operation
not supported"

I have (allegedly) mounted root with user_xattr, so this should work:
# mount | grep reiser
/dev/hda3 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime,user_xattr,acl)

However, I wonder since when I look at /proc I get a different answer
# cat /proc/mounts | grep reiser
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0

I'm unsure if this is a kernel bug or an attr problem.  I tried
recompiling attr from source, but it didn't fix it, so I suspect that
this is a kernel problem.

ciao!

Versions:
This is a DAPPER system current as of 2006-05-10
attr                        2.4.25-1
linux-image-2.6.15-22-686   2.6.15-22.34


Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package 'linux-image'; however, that package was not published in Ubuntu.

** Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Unconfirmed

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setfattr always returns "Operation Not Supported"
https://launchpad.net/bugs/43954