Re: extattr namespaces

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 02:01:58PM +0100, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> [...]
> I think we just need a mount option: -o -stripxattr
> It would do this mapping:
>         "system.foo" <-> SYSTEM "foo"
>         "trusted.foo" <-> SYSTEM "trusted.foo"
>         "security.foo" <-> SYSTEM "security.foo"
>                  "user.foo" <-> USER "foo"
>                  "anything.foo" <-> USER "anything.foo"

But then, if you see USER "foo.bar" in the filesystem, you don't know
if it should be mapped to user.foo.bar or foo.bar.
I don't think this can work.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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