On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 11:04:53PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Note thast _iff_ you ever want to expose the hurd xattrs under Linux > (or in fact at all - gnu.* is only fine for purely internal usage) > please use the system namespace. We really shouldn't expose more than > the existing namespaces to userspace. Hmm, good point. If you're not going to expose it at all, then the system namespace works fine. One potential concern with that plan is that we don't have a way of coordinating *use* of the system namespace across Linux and Hurd, though. We may need to come up with some kind of convention for that purpose. Note that for space reasons, there's no need to make the ascii string used in the system namespace to be long. So something like GNUt and GNUa for the translator and author fields is better from the reducing the space used for the xattrs (which is important if you are using a 256 byte inode and want to keep the xattr inside the inode table). - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
