Re: Versioning file system

[Brad Boyer]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:26:57AM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> Pointless here means that _I_ don't see the point.  Maybe there are
> valid uses for extended attributes.  If there are, noone has explained
> them to me yet.

The users of extended attributes that I've dealt with are ACL support
and SELinux. These both use extended attributes under the covers. It's
just not immediately obvious if you aren't looking.

	Brad Boyer
	flar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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