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Date:      Wed, 3 May 2017 16:20:32 -0700
From:      Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r317779 - head/sys/fs/ext2fs
Message-ID:  <CAGHfRMDSzbM0F4x3SG4Jg3oBCbwSfw-38nXVZhvadv%2BLpp47yQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: pfg
> Date: Wed May  3 22:35:41 2017
> New Revision: 317779
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/317779
>
> Log:
>   ext2fs: add read-write support for Extended Attributes.
>
>   Extended attributes and their particular implementation in linux are
>   different from FreeBSD so in this case we have started diverging from
>   the  UFS EA implementation, which would be the natural reference.
>
>   Depending on future progress implementing ACLs this approach may change
>   but for now bring to the tree an implementation that is consistent and
>   can be tested.
>
>   Submitted by: Fedor Uporov
>
>   Differential Revision:        https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10460

Hi Pedro!
    It might be a good idea to consolidate variations of extended
attributes / [NFSv4] ACLs -- I know that Isilon has an implementation
that doesn't exactly match what's present in FreeBSD.
Thanks!
-Ngie



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