Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] get/set FAT filesystem attribute bits | From | Nicholas Miell <> | Date | Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:10:43 -0800 |
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On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 14:02 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Nicholas Miell wrote: > > > > That's why I put fatattrs in the system namespace, which is wholly owned > > by the Linux kernel. Any theoretical FAT-with-xattrs variant would put > > those xattrs in the user namespace. > > > > On another note, NTFS-style xattrs (aka named streams) are unrelated to > > Linux xattrs. A named stream is a separate file with a funny name, while > > a Linux xattr is a named extension to struct stat. > > > > OK, that does make it more sensible. I do note, however, that ext2/ext3 > do not seem to export their attributes (chattr/lsattr) in this way; I do > also note that the xattr code wherever it has been implemented is just > painfully complex. > > I'll see if I can weed it down to some kind of sane size. > > -hpa
Yeah, I contemplated adding system.fattattrs, system.ntfsattrs, and system.linuxattrs (for the ext2 attrs that have popped up in several other filesystems) a while ago, but xattrs seem to be the red-headed left-handed stepchild of the Linux VFS and I lost interest in the project.
Nice to see someone else interested in it, though. -- Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
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