On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 01:23:50PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
> For many systems, especially those which lack large tape backup systems,
> tree level exclusion is a necessity.
that does not mean it needs to be done via an extended attribute.
> > i think ext2/3 only allow the file owner to set chattr flags like
> > nodump, so for directories assuming xfs wanted to support this (in the
> > ext2 manner) would need to invent a new system.something namespace just
> > for this, that involves kernel bloat.
>
> XFS is already huge kernel bloat, so a few more K isn't going to matter.
thats a terribly foolish attitude, and will ensure XFS would never go
into the mainline kernel.
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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