On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Jason Thorpe wrote:

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

Are you referring to named streams that can be associated with files?

:> 
:>    For a detailed project description see
:>    http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2006/04/15/0012.html
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: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.
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