From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: Fixes to last snapshot
31 Mar 1998 01:25:18 -0800
Message-ID: <199803310914.BAA12949.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@rtl.cygnus.com>
References: <01BD5CA0 DOT 2F872270 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru>
Content-Type: text
To: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Cc: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
> 
> I'd prefere EA usage to be an option of mount. I'd like to have EA enabled 
> on my local fat partitions, and disabled on network drives (because of big 
> slowness).

The use of EA slows down usage of the development tools tremendously
on a fat partition under NT and my hard drive gets filled up with ~100
MB EA file.

We're only using EA for storing the execute bit of files (and symlink
state?), right?  This doesn't seem worth it to me.

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com