On Sat, 18 Nov 2023 at 12:56, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2023-11-18 at 07:24 +0100, Cedric Blancher wrote: > > Good morning! > > > > NFSv4 has a "hidden" filesystem object attribute. How can I set that > > on a Linux NFSv4 server, or in a filesystem exported on Linux via > > NFSv4, so that the NFSv4 client gets this attribute for a file? > > > > You can't. RFC 8881 defines that as "TRUE, if the file is considered > hidden with respect to the Windows API." There is no analogous Linux > inode attribute. Can we use setfattr and getfattr to set/get the NFSv4.1 HIDDEN and ARCHIVE? We have Windows NFSv4 clients (and kofemann/Roland's codebase supports this), and that means we need to be able to set/get and backup/restore these flags on the NFSv4 server side. Ced -- Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@xxxxxxxxx> [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CedricBlancher/] Institute Pasteur
