Re: linux kernel patch for ext2 hurd xattr support

[Guillem Jover]

Hi,

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 06:44:24PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Have people been using my Linux patch with success to diddle Hurdish ext2
> filesystems?  I haven't heard a problem report in a while, but I don't know
> if that just means noone is really playing with it.  If the code works, I
> would like to submit it to the Linux maintainers.

The other day on ##hurd when Marcus proposed to use xattrs for the
shm problem, I realized as well that a better option would be to
store the translator and author info on xattrs natively in the
file system layout instead of wrapping them in every kernel
implementation around. That would give us free translator support
on every kernel supporting xattrs w/o having to hack them. And
would allow us to add translator support to every file system with
xattrs w/o having to extend (some times in a forced way) the file
system layout.

regards,
guillem