--- Chris Wright <chrisw@private> wrote: > The question is > what to do for disk based filesystems that will > never support xattrs, The answer, of course, is to fix them. It is possible to support extended attributes without changing the disk format. I've attached an old Unix design document that describes one way it has been done. > and ram based filesystems. These require care, as there needs to be some scheme to determine what attributes a particular generated object should have. But that's already being done for the mode bits and ownership. If there are exceptions it seems the Linux mount scheme has everything you need to pass that along. Casey Schaufler casey@schaufler-ca.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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