Petteri Räty wrote: > Donnie Berkholz kirjoitti: >> 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.
/me raises hand. yup. don't use 'em. waste of kernel space.
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