Nathan,
Thanks for the education.
I gather from the below that the XFS 2.4.18 kernel patch includes the complete
EA patch, and that as of 2.4.20 it is hoped that you will no longer have to
include this patch because it will be in the base kernel.
>> > These syscalls were back ported to the 2.4 kernel and released as a
>> standard part of 2.4.18.
>> The second part of this statement is incorrect - it has an "off-by-two"
>> error. Marcelo has agreed to include the complete EA patch (that is in
>> 2.5 already, since 2.5.3) in 2.4.20-preX.
>> In 2.4.18 Marcelo took a patch to mark the extended attributes system
>> calls as reserved, and it was 2.4.18 that we switched the XFS CVS tree
>> over to the new interfaces.
Greg Freemyer
Internet Engineer
Deployment and Integration Specialist
The Norcross Group
www.NorcrossGroup.com
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