Re: RFC: evolution of file management

[Eric Pouech]

> Can't really answer your question,
> but on the kernel mailing list, There has been some discussion of
> whether these attributes should be exposed from mounted fat partitions:
> The fat fs maintainer has a patch, and is wondering what to do with it.
> (The patch exposes the fat attributes as extended attributes)
>
> See the thread titled "[RFC] ioctl vs xattr for the filesystem specific
> attributes".

yup that would help (to expose FAT attributes)
my only remark is that we need to open the file in order to get its 
attributes
I wonder if there would be an impact performance wise