Re: [PATCH] get/set FAT filesystem attribute bits
From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Jan 03 2005 - 17:08:41 EST
Nicholas Miell wrote:
That's why I put fatattrs in the system namespace, which is wholly owned
by the Linux kernel. Any theoretical FAT-with-xattrs variant would put
those xattrs in the user namespace.
On another note, NTFS-style xattrs (aka named streams) are unrelated to
Linux xattrs. A named stream is a separate file with a funny name, while
a Linux xattr is a named extension to struct stat.
>
OK, that does make it more sensible. I do note, however, that ext2/ext3
do not seem to export their attributes (chattr/lsattr) in this way; I do
also note that the xattr code wherever it has been implemented is just
painfully complex.
I'll see if I can weed it down to some kind of sane size.
-hpa
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/