Re: xattr names for unprivileged stacking?

Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-31T11:51:35Z

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 1:37 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> As I said to Dave, you and I have a strong difference of opinion here.
> I think that what you are proposing is madness. You're making it too
> flexible which comes with too much opportunity for abuse.

Such as?

> I just want
> to see alternate data streams for the same filename in order to support
> existing use cases. You seem to be able to want to create an entire
> new world inside a file, and that's just too confusing.

To whom? I'm sure users of ancient systems with a flat directory
found directory trees very confusing. Yet it turned out that the
hierarchical system beat the heck out of the flat one.

Thanks,
Miklos