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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: What's a realistic size for xattr?
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:09:28 +0100
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* Andreas Dilger:

> On NTFS the word is that resource forks are mostly used by root kits.

They are also used to mark programs you've downloaded from the Internet,
so that a warning can be displayed when you open them.