Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:57:02 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Dylan Cochran <a134qaed@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extattr portability? Message-ID: <4968EF7E.5040002@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <bdf82f800901092341y2459b8bcyd706a6f9aabb47ea@mail.gmail.com> References: <4965927D.1060507@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901091525300.78432@fledge.watson.org> <bdf82f800901092341y2459b8bcyd706a6f9aabb47ea@mail.gmail.com>
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Dylan Cochran wrote: > > Another is BeOS/Haiku, which used attributes heavily. I have been > waiting for this work for a while. What I don't really mind is whether > it is portable, what I really care about is full retention of the user > namespace. ... > > That's my 2 cents on the matter, I use extended attributes now for > storing cached mime-type, and sha256/md5 for checksum purposes. Wonderful! Care to help test? There's still a lot of open questions about the system namespace I'll have to figure out. Over on the GNU tar mailing list, the Linux filesystem folks have been agitating for GNU tar to support system extattrs that carry filesystem layout hints. The portability issues with this make my head hurt. Tim
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