[Btrfs-devel] [RFC] implement xattrs for btrfs

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 04:04:11PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> seem to do anything different between each of the prefixes, you just get alot
> more code and abstraction than I think is necesary.  So the only thing I do is
> check to make sure the prefix is something that we support, and then handle
> everything the same way.  Is this a bad idea?  Let me know now so I can still
> change it :).  Right now setfatter and getfattr are the only things that work,
> so this is how I test it

When you implement Posix ACLs the plain scheme gets nasty.  That's why
I'm looking to onvert XFS to the handler scheme.  Also having the
namespace resolution in common code is nice to avoid the duplication.