Re: [PATCH v8 0/3] MR1895: Fixes for NtOpenFile of read-only files with FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES

[Joel Holdsworth (＠jhol)]

On Tue Mar 28 14:01:20 2023 +0000, Joel Holdsworth wrote:
> @ehoover suggested using hidden directories to store this information.
> In Wine staging he experimented with storing data of reparse points in a
> `.REPARSE_POINT/` adjacent subdirectory:
> https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine-staging/-/blob/master/patches/ntdll-Junc...
> I wondered if a more general version of this could be used to store DOS
> attributes and EA data on filesystems that don't support xattrs.

```
       The tmpfs filesystem supports extended attributes (see xattr(7)),
       but user extended attributes are not permitted.
```
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/tmpfs.5.html