vfs_fruit and ea support

[Ralph Böhme]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 10:14:01AM +0200, Uri Simchoni wrote:
> Hi Ralph,
> 
> The vfs_fruit manpage states that "ea support" is required. AFAIK, "ea
> support" is about manipulating EA's via the SMB protocol, and has
> nothing to do with internal use of extended attributes, such as the one
> by vfs_fruit.
> 
> Can you clarify? Do OS-X clients make heavy use of EAs?

the problem is that we use this not only in the SMB frontend but also at the FSA
level in get_ea_names_from_file(), get_ea_list_from_file(), ...

Cheerio!
-slow