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Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 15:08:15 +0300
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On 5/16/07, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote:
> Given that the filesystem is still 'experimental', I'd concentrate on
> getting it stable before worrying about immutable and xattrs unless
> they are easy.

We will run into trouble if the on-disk format is not flexible enough
to accommodate xattrs (think reiser3 here). So I'd worry about it
before merging to mainline.