On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 4:59 AM David Disseldorp <ddiss@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Agreed. I don't understand the objection [1] at all. If the issue is that utilities copying a file may also copy xattrs, I don't understand why there would be an expectation that all xattrs are copyable or should be copied. [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/fstests/msg12282.html -- Patrick Donnelly, Ph.D. He / Him / His Senior Software Engineer Red Hat Sunnyvale, CA GPG: 19F28A586F808C2402351B93C3301A3E258DD79D
