On 30 December, 2009 - Dennis Yurichev sent me these 0,7K bytes:

> Hi.
> 
> Why each file can't have also "expiration date/time" field, e.g.,
> date/time when operation system will delete it automatically?
> This could be usable for backups, camera raw files, internet browser
> cached files, etc.

Using extended attributes + cron, you could provide the same service
yourself and other similar (or not) things people would like to do
without developers providing it for you in the fs..

Start at 'man fsattr'

/Tomas
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