Re: [PATCH 3/8][RFC v05] NFSv3: add client implementation of XATTR protocol

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On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 14:35 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:26:18AM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Chuck Lever wrote:
> > 
> > > Another place to look is at NFSv4.  Some of the operations that can be
> > > performed on NFSv4 xattrs are probably nearly what you would want for an NFSv3
> > > implementation.  I think it is desirable for anything done for NFSv3 to be
> > > compatible with NFSv4, as that is already a standard.
> > 
> > Are you referring to named attributes?  I've looked into this, as have 
> > others, and they appear to be fundamentally incompatible with Linux/BSD 
> > xattrs.  They're filesystems within files, with different semantics to the 
> > name/value string model that we use.  I've heard a few developers say 
> > they've looked at implementing xattrs over NAs, but found it unworkable.
> 
> Yes, if we were going to add xattr's to NFSv4, we'd want to define
> entirely new operations for it rather than relying on the named
> attribute mechanism.

Agreed, however there is already work underway in the IETF on the
'labeled NFS' protocol for supporting security labels in NFSv4.

See http://linux-nfs.org/pipermail/labeled-nfs/

Is there really much interest in adding NFSv4 support for xattrs beyond
the security label use case?

Cheers
  Trond
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