Re: [RFC PATCH] ceph: don't list vxattrs in listxattr()

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On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 07:17:11 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:

> Yeah, I rolled a half-assed xfstests patch that did this, and HCH gave
> it a NAK. He's probably right though, and fixing it in ceph.ko is a
> better approach I think.

It sounds as though Christoph's objection is to any use of a "ceph"
xattr namespace for exposing CephFS specific information. I'm not sure
what the alternatives would be, but I find the vxattrs much nicer for
consumption compared to ioctls, etc.

> > Samba currently only makes use of the ceph.snap.btime vxattr. It doesn't
> > depend on it appearing in the listxattr(), so removal would be fine. Not
> > sure about other applications though.
> > 
> > Cheers, David  
> 
> Ok, thanks guys. I'll go ahead and push this into the ceph/testing
> branch and see if teuthology complains.

Sounds good. Feel free to add my RB tag.

Cheers, David



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