I've been working on an implementation of extended attributes for NFSv3, which would enable getxattr(2) and friends over the network. Here's a link to the latest patchset: http://lwn.net/Articles/392944/ and my LinuxCon slides on the topic from last year: http://namei.org/presentations/linuxcon09_nfsv3xattrs.pdf I've been asked by the upstream NFS maintainers about general use-cases for this feature. We have a concrete requirement to convey security labels over NFS, although it's not clear how much need there is for user-managed extended attributes (e.g. user.foo) I was wondering if anyone could offer examples or insights into whether Linux desktop apps are making much use of extended attributes, or whether they might if NFS support were available. (I'm aware of Beagle, which is probably not great over NFS in any case). Thanks for any help. - James -- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
