Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932173AbXFRWfT (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:35:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764537AbXFRWfF (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:35:05 -0400 Received: from mail.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:50355 "EHLO lists.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763874AbXFRWfC (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:35:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:34:25 -0700 From: Jeremy Allison To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: Theodore Tso , "H. Peter Anvin" , alan , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Jack Stone , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: Versioning file system Message-ID: <20070618223425.GL1152@samba1> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison References: <8wsW4-3UY-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <8wJal-3KA-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <8xm22-4Ql-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <8xq5G-32l-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <8xs7w-69W-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <4676F9A2.6010007@zytor.com> <20070618221021.GB2062@thunk.org> <20070618222656.GB25089@lazybastard.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20070618222656.GB25089@lazybastard.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 559 Lines: 15 On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:26:57AM +0200, J?rn 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. Samba uses them to store DOS'ism's that you don't want in your POSIX filesystem. Jeremy. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/