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Re: Tomorrow

To: Robert Brockway <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Tomorrow
From: Jer Jackson <jerj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 27 May 2003 11:19:32 -0400
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What about putting this into VFS and letting VFS use trusted extended
attributes to store in on XFS, NTFS, ext2/3, whatever?

.02

Jeremy

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 00:39, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Sat, 24 May 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > > seems like a sad thing to put such cruft into a decent filesystem just
> > > to support a broken legacy OS.
> >
> > I will make sure it'll be a config option.
> 
> Loadable module I trust :)
> 
> While we're on the XFS wishlist, I think that implementation of
> "immutable" and "append-only" attributes as seen in ext2/3 would be a
> great boon for the filesystem.
> 
> Cheers,
>       Rob (happy XFS user)


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