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

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:33:04PM -0400, [e-mail] 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.