On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 20:11 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > "David Olsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That's great, Anant! I've subscribed to the list and reviewed some of > > the recent postings. I'll study the documentation and sources and git > > and such. Preserving extended attributes jumps out as something I'd > > like to see done. The roadmap mentions it as part of developing a VFS > > layer. That sounds like a major overhaul. Is anyone looking into > > that? > > Hi David, > > I'm not aware of someone working on it until now. That kind of feature > deserves a bit of discussion and drafting of API and layers involved > to avoid mistakes. > > Would be great if you want to study it and make the first proposal :-)
This is something I was going to address at FOSDEM in the parted Lightning Talk. It's not a simple matter of adding support for extended attributes. We need to rework the fs API so we can not only gain extended attributes for ext3, but also support filesystems that we don't current have support for. -- David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Red Hat / Westford, MA
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