From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: size limit of extended attributes Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:35:24 -0400 Message-ID: <20150430143524.GD12374@thunk.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Trond Myklebust , Linux FS-devel Mailing List To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= JACKE Return-path: Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:37645 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751115AbbD3Of1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:35:27 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 03:57:37PM +0200, Bj=F6rn JACKE wrote: > > Trying to squeeze an API for subfiles into the xattr API is a dead = end. >=20 > depends. Works quite well on Solaris. But I didn't ask for that API a= nyway. 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 -- 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