linux-ext4 - Re: xattr index for hurd

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Date:	Sun, 31 Jul 2016 23:04:53 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	LastAvengers <lastavengers@...look.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: xattr index for hurd

Note thast _iff_ you ever want to expose the hurd xattrs under Linux
(or in fact at all - gnu.* is only fine for purely internal usage)
please use the system namespace.  We really shouldn't expose more than
the existing namespaces to userspace.
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