Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

How one can access Ext2fs extended attributes? I didn't found any respective modules at CPAN, maybe its's possible to interact with libext2fs somehow.. I'd like to stat all of them including compression (type/ratio). One else minor question about built-in stat function - as I understood stat is the same as lstat unlike C, so when I do stat on symbolic link I got the referenced file info, not of symlink file itself, am I wrong?