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londons_explore on Aug 10, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with ...

Their reasoning of "you need a filesystem which supports extended attributes" sounds legit.

Time for some of us to start work on adding extended attributes to more filesystems?

jolmg on Aug 10, 2018 | [–]

I believe all 3 filesystems have support for extended attributes, so it doesn't seem legit.

majewsky on Aug 10, 2018 | [–]

XFS is well-known for its extremely good xattrs support, so that does not add up.

Source: Using XFS at work for OpenStack Swift, which makes extensive use of xattrs and thus prefers to run on XFS.

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