Re: Enable FFS extended attributes in GENERIC?

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 07:42:21AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
 > Is there any opposition to enable FFS extended attributes in 
 > GENERIC? 
 > 
 > I have been using them for a while and it seems stable, The
 > relevant code is only involved if the filesystem is explicitely 
 > mounted with -o extattr, which means a bug will not affect people
 > that do not use the feature.
 > 
 > The only issues are:
 > - storage in sparse file (like ancient quota) means fsck do not
 > know about it and cannot repair it.
 > - dump/restore/pax ignore extended attributes (cp and mv preserve them)
 > 
 > It means FFS extended attributes in NetBSD are fragile and that one
 > should be ready to loose them, but that leaves some reasonable usages.

fsck seems like a showstopper.

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David A. Holland
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