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Re: TAKE - attr-2.3.0, add trusted namespace into XFS

To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TAKE - attr-2.3.0, add trusted namespace into XFS
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: 25 Feb 2003 15:39:19 -0600
Cc: Ethan Benson <erbenson@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20030225213710.GA22042@f00f.org>
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On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 15:37, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 04:32:23AM -0600, Stephen Lord wrote:
> 
> > These name strings do not actually hit the disk at all, internally,
> > xfs strips them off. So all this does is change the string prefix
> > used by xfs to map to the different attribute domains.
> 
> So if I boot to an older kernel and have newer userspace I loose?

Yep, unless you use the environment variable Nathan mentioned
in his original message (I do not have it here, but I seem to
remember him mentioning one for backwards compatibility).

Steve

> 
> 
>   --cw
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Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software         email: lord@xxxxxxx


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