On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > I assume that it was in order to avoid that question that this initial > implementation only exports the user.* namespace, since xattr's in that > name space are by design not given any special interpretation by the > filesystem--they just store and return opaque data. Correct -- there are no system semantics (beyond existing DACsecurity checks), so it's straightforward. Other namespaces would need to have semantics defined on a case by case basis. > > --b. > > > > > > > > > > > Note that I'll be giving a talk on this at LinuxCon on Thursday: > > > http://linuxcon.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/1589 So, in addition to > > > discussion here, please come along to the talk if you're at the conf, and > > > we may also be able to discuss it at Plumbers in one of the BoFs. > > > > > > > > > Ah, I was there, and I was asking around wanting to talk about the issue! > > Ah well. > > > > sri > -- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
