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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
