So much wasted space

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From: Gary Kushner
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 19:29

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I did a chkdsk on one of my volumes and discovered that 256k had
been allocated to Extended attributes.  Sure enough EA DATA.SF
was 256k.  On my other volumes the size of EAs range from 2k to
50k.  I was wondering if anyone had any idea what could be in
all those EAs?  I use 100% FAT.  I only use PMSHELL very rarely,
and I've only used it once to add EAs.  When I dump the EAs most
of them don't seem to make any sense.  Lot's of repeating binary
data, and random parts from other programs.  The format of the
EAs seems like a resonable data format:  at the begining of a
cluster the word "EA" and then the filename that the EA is
attached to, but as I said the data looks like garbage.  I think
I've found a bug!  But, I'm not sure.  Any ideas?

-Gary

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From: kushner@ux3.lbl.gov (Gary Kushner)
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Subject: So much wasted space
Summary: EAs
Keywords: Is this a Bug ???
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