Improve documentation, and verify consistency for xattr (extended attributes) support #43882
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Functionality or other elements that the project doesn't currently have. Features are new and shiny
Description
Posting this as a reminder / tracking ticket for issues around xattr support and consistency.
Relates to;
Let me post some details from a conversation I had with @corhere to check if the patch linked above was "safe" to backport;
w.r.t. ISTR the tarball filtering things is to keep the images portable.
Overall, it may be somewhat surprising that attributes can be set during
docker run
, but can't be used (or, more factually: aren't preserved) indocker build
and/or when doing adocker commit
.I think we should;
docker import
from a tarball; if there's a discrepancy there, we should probably document as well.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: