On Apr 21, 2006, at 9:05 AM, Jan Schaumann wrote:

> *  Add Extended Attributes to FFS -- Subfiles (also called Extended
>    Attributes) are important for supporting the NT file model and will
>    enhance Samba support. They are also important for NFSv4 (called
>    Named Attributes) and are already supported by Sun Microsystems,
>    Network Appliance, and EMC.
>
>    For a detailed project description see
>    http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2006/04/15/0012.html

Please do not refer to subfiles as "extended attributes".  NetBSD  
already has an "extended attribute" concept that is shared with  
FreeBSD / Mac OS X / Linux that is nothing like subfiles.

-- thorpej