extended file attributes on external devices

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 17:35 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote:

> 
> For what its worth, OSX handles this with its "user 99":
> 
> http://unixjunkie.blogspot.com/2007/03/user-99-unknown.html

That's an interesting hack.  My guess is a change like that would be
unlikely to get into the Linux kernel, but I wonder if one could do
something similar in userspace with FUSE and thus avoid having it impact
the kernel security model.