Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Tue, 27 May 2003 08:19:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stargate.coplanar.net (CPE0080c8c9b431-CM014280010574.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [24.43.38.154]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h4RFJY2x002736 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 08:19:35 -0700 Received: from cherry2000.skynet.coplanar.net (cherry2000.skynet.coplanar.net [192.168.7.92]) by stargate.coplanar.net (8.12.8/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h4RFJWeJ022628; Tue, 27 May 2003 11:19:32 -0400 Subject: Re: Tomorrow From: Jer Jackson To: Robert Brockway Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: References: <1053694002.2887.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1053697162.21472.51.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com> <20030523134438.GC30288@wotan.suse.de> <20030523150530.A31022@infradead.org> <20030524071709.GK27626@plato.local.lan> <20030524095245.A24074@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1054048771.1939.73.camel@cherry2000.skynet.coplanar.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 27 May 2003 11:19:32 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 4160 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: jerj@coplanar.net Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Content-Length: 651 Lines: 24 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)