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From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	alan <alan@clueserver.org>, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>,
	Jack Stone <jack@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Versioning file system
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:34:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070618223425.GL1152@samba1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070618222656.GB25089@lazybastard.org>

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:26:57AM +0200, Jörn 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.

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	alan <alan@clueserver.org>, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>,
	Jack Stone <jack@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Versioning file system
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:34:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070618223425.GL1152@samba1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070618222656.GB25089@lazybastard.org>

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:26:57AM +0200, Jörn 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.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-18 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 117+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]       ` <8xm22-4Ql-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <8xq5G-32l-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]           ` <8xs7w-69W-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-06-18 20:54             ` Versioning file system Bodo Eggert
2007-06-18 21:08               ` alan
2007-06-18 21:31                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-18 21:34                   ` Jeremy Allison
2007-06-18 22:10                   ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-18 22:26                     ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-18 22:26                       ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-18 21:24                       ` Brad Boyer
2007-06-18 21:24                         ` Brad Boyer
2007-06-19  3:15                         ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-19  3:15                           ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-18 22:34                       ` Jeremy Allison [this message]
2007-06-18 22:34                         ` Jeremy Allison
2007-06-18 22:56                       ` alan
2007-06-19  7:01                       ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-19  7:01                         ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-18 22:48                     ` Jeremy Allison
2007-06-18 23:00                       ` alan
2007-06-19  7:05                       ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-19 16:52                         ` Jeremy Allison
2007-06-19 16:56                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-18 22:47                   ` alan
2007-06-15 22:23 Jack Stone
2007-06-15 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-15 22:51   ` alan
2007-06-15 22:59     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-15 23:06       ` alan
2007-06-16  8:11     ` Jack Stone
2007-06-16  9:46       ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-16 10:12         ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-16 13:15           ` Mark Williamson
2007-06-16 19:57             ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-16 16:49           ` Jan Harkes
2007-06-16 20:03             ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-16 19:38               ` Jack Stone
2007-06-16 20:08               ` Alan Cox
2007-06-16 21:25                 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-16 20:39               ` Jan Harkes
2007-06-16 20:43                 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-16 22:17                 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-17  2:18                   ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-17  2:39                     ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-17 22:11                   ` Dale Amon
2007-06-16 21:06               ` Dale Amon
2007-06-16 11:42         ` Graham Murray
2007-06-16 14:53     ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-16 14:53       ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-18  9:45       ` Andreas Dilger
2007-06-18  9:45         ` Andreas Dilger
2007-06-18  9:54         ` Jack Stone
2007-06-18 10:13         ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-18 10:13           ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-18 14:01         ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-18 16:16           ` alan
2007-06-18 17:29             ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-18 17:33               ` Jeremy Allison
2007-06-18 20:30                 ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-18 20:50                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-06-18 17:46               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-04 17:32               ` Erik Mouw
2007-07-04 20:47                 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-05 17:55                   ` Erik Mouw
2007-07-05 13:57                 ` John Stoffel
2007-07-05 14:23                   ` Chris Mason
2007-07-05 17:57                   ` Erik Mouw
2007-06-18 15:32         ` Chris Mason
2007-06-18 23:18           ` Bron Gondwana
2007-09-29 17:44         ` Sorin Faibish
2007-09-29 17:44           ` Sorin Faibish
2007-06-18 15:51     ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-18 16:37       ` Jack Stone
2007-06-18 16:56         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-18 17:56         ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-19  3:10           ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-19  7:49             ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19  7:58             ` Bron Gondwana
2007-06-20  2:43               ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-19  9:09             ` Martin Langhoff
2007-06-19 16:52             ` Jakub Narebski
2007-06-15 22:52 ` Chris Snook
2007-06-16  8:25   ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 18:03     ` Chris Snook
2007-06-19 19:06       ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:03         ` Chris Snook
2007-06-19 20:08           ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:15             ` Chris Snook
2007-06-19 20:27               ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:34             ` John Stoffel
2007-06-19 20:38               ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:38               ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-06-19 21:02                 ` John Stoffel
2007-06-19 19:08       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-19 19:12         ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 19:15           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-19 19:22             ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:10           ` Chris Snook
2007-06-19 20:14             ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:31               ` Chris Snook
2007-06-20  8:34           ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-06-19 21:50         ` Alan Cox
2007-06-19 22:07           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-20  8:05             ` Ph. Marek
2007-06-19 20:43       ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-06-19 22:07         ` david
2007-06-19 22:13           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-19 23:07             ` Jan Harkes
2007-06-19 23:12               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-19 22:21           ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-06-19 23:35         ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-20  0:27           ` Trond Myklebust
2007-06-20  5:00             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-20 17:04             ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-20 17:10               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-20 17:33               ` Chris Snook
2007-06-15 22:57 ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-15 23:01   ` alan
2007-06-16 11:20     ` Johannes Weiner

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