Assuming Jeremy doesn't run into a strange obstacles on the server side (requiring protocol changes) - I would expect that the client side would be in 3.11 kernel (the merge window for 3.11 will open in about 3 weeks), and the patches are small enough to be easy to backport if distros wanted. On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Ted Miller <tmiller@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Since I don't usually do things on the "bleeding edge" of the Linux kernel, > could you give me a "ballpark" idea of when a 'stable' kernel version that > includes this functionality might be out? > Ted Miller > > > On 6/10/2013 10:37 PM, Steve French wrote: >> >> I have patches for cifs kernel client for this. Jeremy Allison was >> almost done server patches for samba for the other end. >> >> On Jun 10, 2013 6:06 PM, "Ted Miller" <tmiller@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> (If this is the wrong place to ask this question, please feel free to >>> point me in a different direction.) >>> >>> I am working on a system that needs to be able to write to the xattr >>> namespace "trusted", as in trusted.xyz. I only need this support from the >>> Linux client, as the target file is being served by a Windows server. I >>> have tried this using Centos (same package versions as RHEL) 6.4, and the >>> writes all fail with the default client. I am hoping that this has been >>> addressed in a newer version of the CIFS client. >>> >>> Is the "trusted" namespace accessible in the current Linux CIFS client? >>> If so, what version of which file(s) do I need to look for? >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Ted Miller >>> Elkhart, IN, USA > > > -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
