Re: [linux 2.6 patch] ext2 support for hurd extensions via xattr interface

[M. Gerards]

Quoting Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>:

> > GNU tar also supports POSIX archives since some months.  I wrote a patch
> > for GNU tar to support passive translators (GNU.translator).  It should
> > not be too hard to support this on GNU/Linux as well.
> 
> If you reformulate it as generic xattr support that interoperates with
> star's archives, then it won't need any Hurd-specific code and that would
> be the best thing to go into GNU tar.

What do you mean?  Should I add support for xattr for the Hurd to glibc?
And should the filesystems of the Hurd be changed too?

Can you please descibe this a bit more detailed?

Thanks,
Marco