Does anyone know if there's any plan to reintroduce xattrs in FFS2? Probably the only modern UNIX without it in its main FS(s).
Or for a more standard/modern FS like XFS (I don't expect OpenBSD to go for ZFS bloat).
Or for a more standard/modern FS like XFS (I don't expect OpenBSD to go for ZFS bloat).
At some point, I think I heard that they might use HAMMER2, which would be nice.
A developer was making active progress, but hasn't made any commits since Dec
In short no. Also they removed softupdates, code was old and slow and was holding back the quest to unlock.
What's that supposed to mean? ed is the standard text editor, yet we don't actually expect anyone to use it (let alone know it...)
What does this mean? 64-bit inode numbers? 64-bit timestamps? Something else?
> Also they removed softupdates,
Shame in a way, I remember reading McKusick's paper and being impressed. But I guess it's the antithesis of batching, which turned out to be more important for performance than avoiding the extra I/O due to journalling. Also the implementation was AFAIU fearsomely subtle and tricky.
With unveil(2) and maybe pledge(2), I do not think there is a need for Extended Attributes. To me, all it does is add complexities not really needed in OpenBSD.