[Samba] Re: Can not clear Read-only attribute

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:56:27AM +0000, tom m. wrote:
> 
> I'm not against doing that, but does add some work: rebuild extended attribute
> support in kernel, change fstab, etc.  But if I do this, what will be the state
> of all the attribute bits of existing files?  That is, will files marked
> Read-only now suddenly be not Read-only?  How about System/Hidden files?

Yes, you'll lose current DOS attribute mapping, but you'll
be much happier in the long run :-).

Jeremy.