Re: [PATCH] get/set FAT filesystem attribute bits

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Nicholas Miell wrote:
> 
> That's why I put fatattrs in the system namespace, which is wholly owned
> by the Linux kernel. Any theoretical FAT-with-xattrs variant would put
> those xattrs in the user namespace.
> 
> On another note, NTFS-style xattrs (aka named streams) are unrelated to
> Linux xattrs. A named stream is a separate file with a funny name, while
> a Linux xattr is a named extension to struct stat.
 >

OK, that does make it more sensible.  I do note, however, that ext2/ext3 
do not seem to export their attributes (chattr/lsattr) in this way; I do 
also note that the xattr code wherever it has been implemented is just 
painfully complex.

I'll see if I can weed it down to some kind of sane size.

	-hpa