Re: [Squashfs-devel] [PATCH] squashfs: xattr support (v3)

[Helge B. <hel...@se...>]

This is another revised version of the xattr patches, incorporating Stephen's 
changes. Additionally it includes:

* support for other filesystem objects (dirs, devices, symlinks, ...)
* documentation updates

I have split the changes into four patches to (hopefully) simplify changing 
contentious items:

0001-squashfs-xattr-filesystem-layout.patch
	extends on-disk filesystem layout and also adds documentation;
	needs to be adapted if format is to change
0002-squashfs-xattr-in-memory-structures.patch
	just adds "xattr" field to various;
	most certainly uncontentious
0003-squashfs-xattr-retrieval.patch
	adds method for retrieving encoded xattrs from fs;
	needs to be adapted if format is to change
0004-squashfs-xattr-inode-operations.patch
	glue everything above together, bind to vfs ops;
	most certainly uncontentious

suitable images can be generated using libsqfs, further work to ease creating 
images to follow

Best regards
Helge
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