Donnie Berkholz kirjoitti:
> On 08:29 Thu 20 Dec     , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:38:01 -0800
>> Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Here's some other ideas for how to express EAPI. What if we:
>>>
>>> Used EAPI-named subdirectories instead of tagging it into the
>>> filename?
>> Performance hit, and otherwise equivalent to using suffixes.
> 
> Not quite so ugly-looking to my eyes.
> 
>>> Used (and required) filesystem extended attributes?
>> Unportable, unsyncable and unmaintainable.
> 
> Unportable to filesystems that don't support extended attributes isn't 
> very interesting to me, unless they're common. Out of curiosity, do you 
> know which ones that would be? Looking at my kernel config, ext3 and 
> reiser explicitly support xattrs, and I see jfs and xfs have acls and 
> security labels, which might be usable. Unsyncable would be a problem, 
> so it's a good thing rsync has USE=xattr -- do the difficulties come in 
> on the CVS side? Why do you say unmaintainable?
> 

Many users might have extended attributes support turned off in the kernel.

Regards,
Petteri

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