From 5cc5706ed3991801e5525219982e8be120e50f24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Duffeck?= <andre.duffeck@firondu.de>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 08:21:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Do not choke on emtpy space root metadata

---
 pkg/storage/utils/decomposedfs/node/node.go | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pkg/storage/utils/decomposedfs/node/node.go b/pkg/storage/utils/decomposedfs/node/node.go
index 9c52eeeeebd..961980c34ba 100644
--- a/pkg/storage/utils/decomposedfs/node/node.go
+++ b/pkg/storage/utils/decomposedfs/node/node.go
@@ -223,13 +223,16 @@ func ReadNode(ctx context.Context, lu PathLookup, spaceID, nodeID string, canLis
 		case err != nil:
 			return nil, err
 		}
-		spaceRoot.Exists = true
 
 		// lookup name in extended attributes
 		spaceRoot.Name, err = spaceRoot.XattrString(prefixes.NameAttr)
-		if err != nil {
+		switch {
+		case metadata.IsAttrUnset(err):
+			return spaceRoot, nil // empty metadata. create from scratch
+		case err != nil:
 			return nil, err
 		}
+		spaceRoot.Exists = true
 	}
 
 	// TODO ReadNode should not check permissions