Thor Lancelot Simon <t...@panix.com> wrote: > If what you're saying is that the attribute store writes are not treated > with the same integrity guarantees as other metadata writes, and, worse, > that the datastructures they're stored in are not designed to be robust > against corruption at least such that the system does not crash if it > encounters, let's say, a truncated attribute store -- that sounds to me > like such a severe design and implementation bug that this feature should > be removed from the source tree.
Well I do not know if it is less robust, but I can tell I managed to corrupt it to the point the root could not be mounted anymore. > Is FreeBSD's FFSv2 attribute code similarly fragile? A lot of people > seem to be using it. Maybe it would be a better path forward for us. FFSv2 does not use file as backing store, the attribute are said to be "native". I suspect it is indeed more robust. I would be happy if someone is ready to import that code. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz m...@netbsd.org
