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. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
