From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765327AbXFSAKc (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:10:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755559AbXFSAKY (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:10:24 -0400 Received: from adsl-216-102-214-42.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([216.102.214.42]:50010 "EHLO cynthia.pants.nu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754155AbXFSAKX (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:10:23 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2235 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:10:23 EDT Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:24:23 -0700 From: Brad Boyer To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: Theodore Tso , "H. Peter Anvin" , alan , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Jack Stone , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: Versioning file system Message-ID: <20070618212423.GB19713@cynthia.pants.nu> References: <8wsW4-3UY-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <8wJal-3KA-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <8xm22-4Ql-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <8xq5G-32l-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <8xs7w-69W-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <4676F9A2.6010007@zytor.com> <20070618221021.GB2062@thunk.org> <20070618222656.GB25089@lazybastard.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20070618222656.GB25089@lazybastard.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:26:57AM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > Pointless here means that _I_ don't see the point. Maybe there are > valid uses for extended attributes. If there are, noone has explained > them to me yet. The users of extended attributes that I've dealt with are ACL support and SELinux. These both use extended attributes under the covers. It's just not immediately obvious if you aren't looking. Brad Boyer flar@allandria.com