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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:47:13 +0100
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Paul Jackson wrote:
> I find the idea that most backup tools and scripts will silently
> stop working correctly to be pretty scary.  

Too late.  We have xattrs already; many programs don't store them.

-- Jamie