> On Mar 21, 2016, at 8:12 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:48:04PM +0100, Cedric Blancher wrote: >> Old invalid argument, and Sophos and Symatec look there as well. >> >> If it was a bad idea, why has Linux fs attributes which are almost the >> same as O_XATTR except that they use a custom api? Why does Macos have >> alternate streams (called forks)? Why did Solaris adopt it long ago >> (and still gets support questions about it - just saying before >> someone argues that no one uses THAT)? > > Could you point us at some of those users? I am told that Samba users would love this functionality. > > --b. -- 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
