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From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@altum.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: ZFS/BtrFS bindings
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 22:29:48 +0200
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Dufr wrote:

> For instance: extended attributes (xattr). Can I access and use them from
> Ada? No, unless I have the bindings specific to that file system.

This also is NOT a question of FS bindings, but of libattr/libacl bindings. 
The interface is usually common to all filesystems supporting it. That's the 
reason why the virtual filesystem (VFS) layer exists in Linux, it's an 
abstraction layer between user space and the different filesystems.

HTH...

	Dirk
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