Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add extended attributes to ext2/3

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 06:58:16 EST


On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:33:04PM -0400, tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> Linus,
>
> Enclosed please find patches to add extended attribute support
> to the ext2 and ext3 filesystems. It is a port of Andreas Gruenbacher's
> patches, which have been quite well tested at this point. Full support
> for extended attributes have been in e2fsprogs for quite some time. In
> addition, if CONFIG_EXT[23]_FS_ATTR is not enabled, the code path
> changes are quite minimal, and hence this should be a very low-risk
> patch. Please apply.
>
> These patches are a prerequisite for the port of Andreas Gruenbacher's
> ACL patches, which will follow shortly.
>
> This first patch creates a generic interface for registering caches with
> the VM subsystem so that they can react appropriately to memory
> pressure.

It doesn't look like you addressed any comments raised, i.e. my
complaints or sct's superblock fields. I"ll start feeding some updates
to akpm to address a few issues, but I don't really have time to
care of all that.

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