Re: Extended attributes, Linux and GNOME

["Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm usm edu ec>]

> On ACL-s, yes, having ACL support in GNOME would be awesome. Using the
> attributes extension is more questionable - portability is still very low,
> there is no network file system (nfs or otherwise) support, and very many
> people would still have kernels that don't have the support. Having attrs
> be compulsory would probably hurt gnome use / upgrades a lot.
For those cases where EA doesn't work, GNOME must fall back to the 
standard .nautilus-metafile.  Wherever they work, they should be used as 
the primary metadata store.

> 	Sander
>
> 	Humans love to categorize and organize things. We break up time into
> 	hours, days and years. Everything has to have a name, a history, an
> 	understanding of it's origins and must be indexed somewhere on Google.
>
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