This is a take 2 of posix file attribute support on VFAT. I made a couple of changes from previous revision, according feedbacks on LKML. - clean up - restrict file attribute operations to prevent attribute lose at runtime. - added condition checking to special files like device files and symlink. I did not yet implement short symlik optimization, sugessted at from harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org Main purpose of this patch is to build root file system with VFAT for smallembedded device. FAT is widely used for embedded device to exchange data, and also small embedded device has resource limitation. So it's very handy that VFAT has capability to built root fs, even that has restrictions. Details are described within a patch. I think this feature still needs improvemnts, however it is very helpful for most embedded developpers. This patch is against 2.6.12 kernel. -- Hiroyuki Machida machida@sm.sony.co.jp SSW Dept. HENC, Sony Corp.