Subject: Re: [PATCH] get/set FAT filesystem attribute bits
From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:10:43 -0800
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On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 14:02 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Nicholas Miell wrote:
> > 
> > That's why I put fatattrs in the system namespace, which is wholly owned
> > by the Linux kernel. Any theoretical FAT-with-xattrs variant would put
> > those xattrs in the user namespace.
> > 
> > On another note, NTFS-style xattrs (aka named streams) are unrelated to
> > Linux xattrs. A named stream is a separate file with a funny name, while
> > a Linux xattr is a named extension to struct stat.
>  >
> 
> OK, that does make it more sensible.  I do note, however, that ext2/ext3 
> do not seem to export their attributes (chattr/lsattr) in this way; I do 
> also note that the xattr code wherever it has been implemented is just 
> painfully complex.
> 
> I'll see if I can weed it down to some kind of sane size.
> 
> 	-hpa

Yeah, I contemplated adding system.fattattrs, system.ntfsattrs, and
system.linuxattrs (for the ext2 attrs that have popped up in several
other filesystems) a while ago, but xattrs seem to be the red-headed
left-handed stepchild of the Linux VFS and I lost interest in the
project.

Nice to see someone else interested in it, though.
-- 
Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>

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