From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Björn JACKE" <bj@sernet.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: size limit of extended attributes
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:35:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150430143524.GD12374@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Ynoyu-001UTN-EI@intern.SerNet.DE>
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 03:57:37PM +0200, Björn JACKE wrote:
> > Trying to squeeze an API for subfiles into the xattr API is a dead end.
>
> depends. Works quite well on Solaris. But I didn't ask for that API anyway.
Yes, it works really well for hiding rootkits that can't be found
using the usual tools. Trust me, we don't want to go there. Even
Windows has more or less abandoned that misbegotten idea of alternate
file streams, which get dropped when you try to download a file using
http, etc., etc., etc.
- Ted
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-30 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-30 11:33 size limit of extended attributes Björn JACKE
2015-04-30 12:38 ` Trond Myklebust
2015-04-30 13:57 ` Björn JACKE
2015-04-30 14:35 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2015-04-30 14:46 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-30 16:06 ` Björn JACKE
2015-04-30 16:56 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-05-05 13:34 ` Björn JACKE
2015-05-01 15:43 ` Dave Chinner
2015-05-05 13:38 ` Björn JACKE
2015-05-05 15:43 ` Jan Kara
2015-05-06 1:31 ` Dave Chinner
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