Re: XATTR support

From: Hans Reiser
Date: Thu Jul 29 2004 - 02:37:39 EST


Steve French wrote:

I noticed that ext2, ext3, reiserfs, and jfs mark (in menuconfig) their
xattr support as an optional subfeature which is a little surprising
because the xattr support in those filesystems is no longer
experimental/unstable

well, xattr related bugs were found just a few months ago.... and some of us think xattrs are a bad idea in principle.

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