On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Stephen Smalley wrote:

> On the other hand, adding a fake xattr handler to every filesystem that
> doesn't natively support them also seems difficult to accept; we've only
> done this to date on a demand basis; devpts needed the support for pty
> relabeling, tmpfs needed support for udev.

What other filesystems are likely to need xattr handlers? It is (now especially) very simple to add them as needed.

I think we should stick with the xattr API, it is "the" way to manage extra-inode data under Linux. Perhaps what we should do instead is fix the core xattr code so that it can do what we need it do to.

• James -- James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>

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