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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 01:16:13 +0200
From: Andreas Gruenbacher <a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at>
To: Linux ACL Developers List <acl-devel@bestbits.at>
Subject: [ACL-Devel] New version 0.6.0-pre38 available

Hi all,

Finally I've managed to split the extended attribute code from the ACL
code, along with a few other cleanups. All previously known problems
have been solved.

We're heading for the next stable version (0.7). This will be one of the
last pre-release versions as I feel confident the code is pretty good
now. Please test the code is if it were final  :-)

Current version  :  0.6.0-pre38
Kernels supported:  2.2.16, 2.4.0-test5


Important changes:

- The kernel patches have been split. You will need to apply
  the Extended Attributes(EA)  patch prior to applying the ACL patch.

- A small change in the on-disk format (EA blocks now count towards
  an inode's i_blocks counter). You do _not_ need to back up / restore
  ACLs when upgrading. Simply run the newly patched e2fsck.

- The aget and aset utilities are now distributed in a separate package.


File list:

Extended Attributes patch - linux-2.2.16-ea-0.6.0-pre38.patch.gz
ACL patch                 - linux-2.2.16-acl-0.6.0-pre38.patch.gz
Extended Attributes patch - linux-2.4.0-test5-ea-0.6.0-pre38.patch.gz
ACL patch                 - linux-2.4.0-test5-acl-0.6.0-pre38.patch.gz
ACL utilities             - acl-0.6.0-pre38.tar.gz
e2fsck patch              - e2fsprogs-1.18-ea-0.6.0-pre38.patch.gz
ls, cp, mv, ... patch     - fileutils-4.0-acl-0.6.0-pre38.patch.gz
aget and aset utils       - ea-0.6.0-pre38.tar.gz


There are a couple of things that should be done pretty soon.
I'd be very happy to see somebody volunteer  :-)

- Adapt the fileutils patch to fileutils-4.0x
- Adapt the e2fsprogs patch to e2fsprogs-1.19


For now, the now code is here: <http://acl.bestbits.at/pre/>
I will update the Web pages shortly.


Cheers,
Andreas.

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