Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> writes: > | And it's not just NetBSD > > The relevant issue is, in that NetBSD10 might have EA support, but > perhaps without them being enabled by default on anything, for which > the solution, and its ramifications are a peculiarly NetBSD issue > (the same thing does not apply to FreeBSD for example, there you > just need a new enough system, and not to be using FFSv1). And you need not to be using FAT32, and probabbly a bunch of other filesystems, on various operating systems. NetBSD already has the property that EA might be present in a filesystem (FFSv1 maybe, ZFS) and it might not. That basic "maybe" is not going to change; there's just one more option with. > | --- it's a larger issue that you need to use a FS with > | certain properties if you want certain features. So it really belongs > | in the upstream documentation in general. > > That one needs ACLs yes, certainly - that to get those working on > NetBSD requires NetBSD >= 10, and one needs to then either newfs > with some specific option, or fsck with some specific option, not so much. In that case, sure. But there is a tendency in pkgsrc to put in fixes that apply to all use on NetBSD, not just in pkgsrc context (which is great) and then not push them upstream.
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