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Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> Donnie Berkholz kirjoitti: |
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>> Unportable to filesystems that don't support extended attributes isn't |
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>> very interesting to me, unless they're common. Out of curiosity, do you |
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>> know which ones that would be? Looking at my kernel config, ext3 and |
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>> reiser explicitly support xattrs, and I see jfs and xfs have acls and |
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>> security labels, which might be usable. Unsyncable would be a problem, |
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>> so it's a good thing rsync has USE=xattr -- do the difficulties come in |
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>> on the CVS side? Why do you say unmaintainable? |
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> Many users might have extended attributes support turned off in the kernel. |
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/me raises hand. yup. don't use 'em. waste of kernel space. |
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