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@sgi.com>> 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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