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