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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.mdwn index 8e1a532b..f35498fe 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2016, 2018 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -10,6 +11,13 @@ is included in the section entitled [[!meta title="Implement xattr Support"]] +[[!template id=highlight text="""/!\ Obsolete /!\ + +--- + +This is no longer valid as a Google Summer of Code project; it's done."""]] + + Extended attributes (xattr) are a standardized, generic method for storing additional metadata along with a file (inode). Most modern UNIX filesystems support xattrs. @@ -40,8 +48,3 @@ with xattrs might help a bit, but shouldn't be really necessary either. Some previous work on xattr support is [[available|open_issues/xattr]], and might serve as a starting point. - -Possible mentors: Justus Winter (teythoon), Samuel Thibault (youpi) - -Exercise: Implement support for different inode sizes (other than 128 bytes) in -Hurd's ext2fs. |