From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: Versioning file system Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:34:25 -0700 Message-ID: <20070618223425.GL1152@samba1> 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> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE 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 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Return-path: 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070618222656.GB25089@lazybastard.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:26:57AM +0200, J=F6rn Engel wrote: >=20 > Pointless here means that _I_ don't see the point. Maybe there are > valid uses for extended attributes. If there are, noone has explaine= d > 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-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html