From: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan) Subject: Extended attributes [Re: Fixes to last snapshot] 22 Mar 1998 14:04:34 -0800 Message-ID: References: <199803212225 DOT OAA15228 AT rtl DOT cygnus DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Geoffrey Noer wrote: > > I'm starting to think that perhaps use of the extended attributes > should be off by default. The files that get created are huge and > there isn't any way that I know of to trim them down to a minimum > size. :-( > Just to add a data point that illustrates the problem -- I have a NT 4.0 SP3 FAT machine with 128M of RAM, but I can't even run dlltool to produce the export library for tcl/tk/kernel32 etc. I usually kill it after a few hours. The problem might very well be the fact that my EA SF is about 150M, but even if I use another partition with about 15M EA SF, the problem remains. Mumit