On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 07:35:14AM +0100, Keith Matthews wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 18:26:02 -0600 (CST) Eric Sandeen <Eric Sandeen
> <sandeen@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
> > > I made a tiny xfs filesystem to test this, then made a 0-byte file and
> > > added 64K attributes until I ran out of space:
>
> > And then I read Ethan's mail from earlier today... whoops. :)
>
> Sorry if this is a red herring, as it's an area I have not managed to
> study properly.
it is a red herring.
> A thought - what happens to the space taken up by EAs against special
> device files on shutdown/reboot if devfs is in use ?
devfs does not support extended attributes. but this is irrelevant,
using devfs is not a solution but a workaround.
and i for one will never ever use devfs, but again its irrelevant, the
real problem needs to be fixed not ignored and kludged around.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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