> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-kern-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:tech-kern-owner@NetBSD.org]On
> Behalf Of Reinoud Zandijk
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 3:39 PM
> To: Jason Thorpe
> Cc: tech-kern@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:32:54PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> >
> > On Jun 28, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> >
> > >For the extra time attributes that might be handy i'll think of a
> > >VOP_{GET,SET}TIMES() proposal wich shouldn't be to hard to implement.
> >
> > I would rather this be done with the extended attributes
> > interface...  Perhaps some reserved extended attribute names, or
> > perhaps a new "filesystem" namespace to go along with "system" and
> > "user".
>
> true, an application could request getxattr(fh, "filesystem.last_backup",
> &data, length) ... but the names would have to be standardised as well as
> their content.
>
> My Linux <sys/xattr.h> gives definitions for the [gs]etxattr's but i
> haven't found any reference yet to the defined names and meanings. Even a
> google didn't help, but i'll search on.
>
> Reinoud

Standard names are a work-in-progress. A good survey
is in the star sources. Star is a variant of tar, and
a good one. I don't have the URL handy but it is easy
to find.

	-gww