2013/6/7 Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 03:40, Jiri B wrote: > > As now FUSE is in the tree, is there a plan to resuscitate > > extattr on OpenBSD, so some filesystems in usespace could > > work or benefit from it? I'd like to see to be able to access > > glusterfs for example which uses extattr for its own metadata. > > I don't think so. > Too many tools remain unaware of them, causing attributes to get > stripped off doing rather mundane operations. > > Samba 4 also may use extattr to save some network-share-specific information, so this could be really useful in that case. But not for generic use, of course - and adding a bloat to kernel just to the sake of compatibility with other OS... oh, we already have Linux ABI, don't we? :)
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