extended attributes & fstab

[Chris Peterman]

What do Extended Attrs do aside from let Beagle do its magic?

~ Chris

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 23:01 +0000, Lee Braiden wrote:
> On Thursday 03 November 2005 21:21, Matt Price wrote:
> > I'm just wondering why, when ext3 extended attributes are enabled by
> > default in the kernel, the default breezy installatin doesn't set the
> > user_xattr swtich in fstab.  Presumably when beagle moves into Main
> > (next release I hope?) this will be essential... so I'm wondering
> > whether there is some bug that makes extended attributes problematic.
> > thanks,
> 
> I'm only a user, not responsible for such decisions.  But to me, the biggest 
> bug is that GNOME and KDE don't support EAs, so enabling them could be a 
> security risk, since hackers could do things to the machine that the actual 
> desktop users wouldn't notice.
> 
> -- 
> Lee Braiden
> http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
> 
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