On Tue, 2017-10-17 at 01:03 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 09:53:46AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > > > With xattr support the situation is different. It has been broken > > for four > > years and nobody complained. That is a good indication nobody uses > > that > > code and we can drop it. Furthermore, Christoph pointed out that > > original > > HFS+ in MacOS never supported xattrs which makes it even less > > likely that > > someone uses that functionality (as you cannot use it if you want > > your > > filesystem to stay compatible with MacOS). > s/xattrs/Posix ACLs/g The extended attributes supported in Mac OS X many years already [1]. Of course, it looks like more than Richacls [2]. But no Richacls was available during the implementation phase. [1] https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/xattr.1.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richacls
