On 1/10/09, Tim Kientzle <kientzle_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > Dylan Cochran wrote: >> > > Wonderful! Care to help test? Absolutely. > > There's still a lot of open questions about the system > namespace I'll have to figure out. Over on the GNU tar > mailing list, the Linux filesystem folks have been agitating > for GNU tar to support system extattrs that carry filesystem > layout hints. The portability issues with this make my > head hurt. Yea, I think in the end it's going to be inherently un-portable, as in some systems, the system attributes could be filesystem or kernel specific. And I can forsee some dangerous reprocussions (a collision on an attribute name in the system namespace, which on one system is just a tag, like 'page=23', but on another, it's interpreted as a flagged hint to the dynamic linker, on how to page in the file..... > > Tim >Received on Sat Jan 10 2009 - 21:56:07 UTC
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