[SecureDistros] Does anyone uses extended attributes?

[Pedro Rosa <Pedro.Rosa@ksu.ru>]

Just a curiosity. Is there any distro that uses the ext2 extended 
attributes? I mean one that it has a system of policies showing their 
use (with at least a non-zero level of documentation explaining the why's).

And another question concerned with these attributes. The undelete 
functions (secure-delete & undelete) seem to have been forgotten for 
good. Well one may live 80% of time without needing them. But still, 
there are moments when such stuff is needed like air. The biggest 
trouble happens in all-day-run fileservers, when a user deletes his 
"need-more-than-life" file and the sysadmin can only ask "what flowers 
do you like?.."

Novell Netware has such a tool and it is highly helpful. Besides its 
work does not  seriously overload the system. Is there any chance to see 
such a thing on a Linux environment?

Ektanoor

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