Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:52:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:52:25 -0400 Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:35332 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:52:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:58:16 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: tytso@mit.edu Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add extended attributes to ext2/3 Message-ID: <20021015125816.A22877@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , tytso@mit.edu, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from tytso@mit.edu on Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:33:04PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1267 Lines: 28 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/