hi, > The question is: do we strip/add the string namespace when > storing/reading the values in the filesystem. > > For native use, I think we do not want to strip, as it is simplier. The
i agree. > problem arise when mounting a disk from FreeBSD. Here when we ask to > store "user.foo", we mean USER "foo" and not USER "user.foo". > > I think we just need a mount option: -o -stripxattr > It would do this mapping: > "system.foo" <-> SYSTEM "foo" > "trusted.foo" <-> SYSTEM "trusted.foo" > "security.foo" <-> SYSTEM "security.foo" > "user.foo" <-> USER "foo" > "anything.foo" <-> USER "anything.foo" i wonder if our ufs is still compatible enough with freebsd for the option to be useful. especially when we use a different API from theirs. but having the option would not hurt much either, given that it would be ufs-internal. YAMAMOTO Takashi > > > -- > Emmanuel Dreyfus > http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz > m...@netbsd.org