Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:05:48 -0400 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: Daniel Molina Wegener <dmw@unete.cl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extended file atributes Message-ID: <20060813150548.GB14018@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <200608131057.32012.dmw@unete.cl> References: <20060813143104.GC12959@teddy.fas.com> <200608131057.32012.dmw@unete.cl>
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On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 10:57:31AM -0400, Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: > On Sunday 13 August 2006 10:31, stan wrote: > > I was just reading about something called "extended file > > atributes", in Linux. This seems to be a way to store > > arbitray tag -> value pairs in the filesystem, which are > > assocaited with a given file. > > Hello, it's similar, but not identical... see the chflags(1) > and chflags(2) manual pages. > I looked on a 4.x machine. Unless this has been sunstaintaily changed in later versions, it can't store _arbitrary_ values, which is what I was looking for. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
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