ec: Add config information in an xattr

To simplify backward compatibility of the ec xlator when some
parameter or the implementation itself is changed, a new xattr
is added to each file with the configuration needed to recover
it.

The new attribute is called 'trusted.ec.config', and it's a 64-bit
value containing the following information:

    8 bits: version of the config information (currently always 0)
    8 bits: algorithm used to encode the file (currently always 0)
    8 bits: size of the galois field (currently always 8)
    8 bits: number of bricks
    8 bits: redundancy
   24 bits: chunk size (currently 512)

This new xattr could allow, in a future version, to have different
configurations per file.

Change-Id: I8c12d40ff546cc201fc66caa367484be3d48aeb4
BUG: 1140861
Signed-off-by: Xavier Hernandez <xhernandez@datalab.es>
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/8770
Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Lambright <dlambrig@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vijay Bellur <vbellur@redhat.com>

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