[Devil-linux-develop] [fmII] Extended Attributes and ACLs for Linux 0.8.20 released (Default branch)

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The changes in this release are as follows:
The on-disk format has changed between versions 0.7 and 0.8. Official
extended attribute system calls have been assigned, and the ext2/ext3
and XFS file systems are now compatible at the system call level. The
kernel patches have been rewritten, and are now much better
structured. RPM versions of all packages are available.

Project description:
Linux, in the tradition of UNIX-like operating systems, implements
file system permissions using a rather coarse scheme. While this is
sufficient for a surprisingly large set of applications, it is too
inflexible for many other scenarios. For that reason, all the major
commercial UNIX operating systems have extended this simple scheme in
one way or the other. This is an effort to implement POSIX-like Access
Control Lists for Linux. Access Control Lists are built on top of
Extended Attributes, which can also be used to associate other pieces
of information with files such as Filesystem Capabilities, or user
data like mime type and search keywords.

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