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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:25:13 +0100
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH 3/4] Add extended attributes to ext2/3
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Hi,

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 01:29:28PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 October 2002 00:17, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > Well, how about this as a compromise?  We define a new superblock
> > field which reserves a certain amount of space in the EA block for
> > "system" attributes. 

> > Andreas, does that sound good to you?
> 
> I'd rather not store such policy things on the file system permanently, and 
> make it a mount option. I'm wondering how many installations this would 
> affect; to me it seems that it's not worth a super block flag.

We already have a lot of similar places where we do this in ext2/3.
The standard procedure is to store the default in the superblock but
to allow the user to override at mount time.

--Stephen
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