From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755645Ab0EQTZw (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 15:25:52 -0400 Received: from anchor-post-2.mail.demon.net ([195.173.77.133]:50865 "EHLO anchor-post-2.mail.demon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754905Ab0EQTZu (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 15:25:50 -0400 Message-ID: <4BF197B5.60004@lougher.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 20:23:33 +0100 From: Phillip Lougher User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org CC: Linux Kernel Development Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Squashfs: add xattr file system support Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, The following patches add xattr file system support to Squashfs. Xattr layout highlights 1. Layout can store up to 2^48 bytes of compressed xattr data. 2. Number of xattrs per inode unlimited. 3. Total size of xattr data per inode 2^48 bytes of compressed data. 4. Up to 4 Gbytes of data per xattr value. 5. Inline and out-of-line xattr values supported for higher performance in xattr scanning (listxattr & getxattr), and to allow xattr value de-duplication. 6. Both whole inode xattr duplicate detection and individual xattr value duplicate detection supported. These can obviously nest, file C's xattrs can be a complete duplicate of file B, and file B's xattrs can be a partial duplicate of file A. 7. Xattr name prefix types stored, allowing the redundant "user.", "trusted." etc. characters to be eliminated and more concisely stored. 8. Support for files, directories, symbolic links, device nodes, fifos and sockets. Xattr support for mksquashfs is in Squashfs CVS here http://sourceforge.net/projects/squashfs/develop These patches are also in git, here git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-xattr.git master gitweb http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-xattr.git;a=summary Phillip