Re: null character filesystem corruption with 2.4.6

[Timothy Shimmin <tes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Juha,

On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 09:42:45AM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> > Seth, I think you're getting terms confused here... extended attributes
> > don't have anything to do with the null characters in files that have a
> > size, but no data.  Extended attributes are extra pieces of information
> > that can be attached to a file, this is how access control lists (ACLs)
> > are implemented in XFS, for example.
> 
> I didn't actually know that XFS uses EAs for ACLs. 
Sure does.

> What else is stored in there?
DMAPI/DMF attributes.

In IRIX we also use it for Capabilities and Manadatory Access Control info.

--Tim