The IESG has received a request from the Network File System Version 4 WG
(nfsv4) to consider the following document:
- 'File System Extended Attributes in NFSv4'
<draft-ietf-nfsv4-xattrs-05.txt> as Proposed Standard
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2017-05-16. Exceptionally, comments may be
sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the
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Abstract
This document describes an OPTIONAL feature extending the NFSv4
protocol which allows extended attributes (hereinafter also referred
to as xattrs) to be interrogated and manipulated using NFSv4 clients.
Xattrs are provided by a file system to associate opaque metadata,
not interpreted by the file system, with files and directories. Such
support is present in many modern local file systems. New file
attributes are provided to allow clients to query the server for
xattr support, with that support consisting of new operations to get
and set xattrs on file system objects.
The file can be obtained via
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-nfsv4-xattrs/
IESG discussion can be tracked via
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-nfsv4-xattrs/ballot/
No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
