New EA/ACL kernel patches available (0.8.56 release candidate 1)

Hello,

I have updated the kernel patches to the most recent development version;
the NFS ACL support should now also be stable. There are several other
small changes, but none in the core code (EA/ACL) are critical. The
patches are available here:

	http://acl.bestbits.at/pre/2.4.20/

Please test; if everything works out well, I will make this the next
official version.

With a little work the patches integrate with SGI's XFS 1.2
<http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/>, and with IBM's JFS
<http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jfs/>. With some more work, the
ReiserFS EA/ACL patches will work, too.

For those looking for a kernel with all the EA/ACL patches for ext2, ext3,
xfs, jfs, reiserfs, the current unstable SuSE development kernel is
available at <ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/next/>. This kernel
currently is based on 2.4.21pre4aa3, and has many additional patches.

Please not that I am still waiting for permission from SUN Microsystems to
implement/use their nfs_acl protocol extension to NFSv3. Integration of
the NFS ACL patches in a distribution at this point unfortunately must be
discouraged. If anybody has contacts to any SUN managers, I would highly
appreciate if they could help with getting this through.


Regards,
Andreas.

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 Andreas Gruenbacher, a.gruenbacher@computer.org
 Contact information: http://www.bestbits.at/~ag/

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