[RFC][PATCH] remove extraneous xattr-s from not recreated files

[Wayne Davison]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:57:09PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> That looks like it should do the job, and is a nice improvement over
> what is there now.

One more thing -- the one thing that I don't like about this patch is
that it can momentarily tweak an existing file to remove all its xattrs,
and then put them back.  It would be better in the long run to only
remove the items that are extraneous, so that unchanged xattrs don't
flicker.

..wayne..