From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: Fixes to last snapshot
21 Mar 1998 14:53:31 -0800
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
[...]
> I think that it should be a mount option rather than an environment setting,
> actually.  How about these options:
> 
> 	mount
> 	  -b		"binary" mount
> 	  -p		posix semantics (case sensitive)
> 	  -A		do not use extended attributes
> 	  -r		"r"emovable device (floppy, zip drive)
> 	  -s		create mount table in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

I'm starting to think that perhaps use of the extended attributes
should be off by default.  The files that get created are huge and
there isn't any way that I know of to trim them down to a minimum
size.  :-(

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Geoffrey Noer
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