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Re: Extended Attributes

To: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>, "Quang Nguyen (Ngo)" <quang.nguyen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Extended Attributes
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:07:33 +1100
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <1007577855.22718.24.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from lord@xxxxxxx on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:44:15PM -0600
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:44:15PM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 12:39, Quang Nguyen (Ngo) wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone know if other journaling file systems also support extended
> > attributes besides XFS?
> 
> Given there is a patch for ext2, it is not inconceivble that ext3
> will support them at some point.

There's a patch for ext3 now, based on an -ac tree, from the
same folk who do the ext2 version (http://acl.bestbits.at/).

> Not sure about jfs - it may on os2, but probably does not on Linux.

The IBM guys tell me there is code in their tree to support
extended attributes and ACLs, but my understanding is that at
this stage it is not compiled in.  There would be some work
to get it to tie in with whatever interface eventually gets
put into the kernel of course... I guess they're waiting to
see how that pans out before working on that area.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan


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