On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 14:49 -0500, Matt W. Benjamin wrote: > Can you restate reasoning why it will never do so, and whether this is the same as saying it will never implement named attributes? > > Thanks, > > Matt > Certainly... xattrs are the bastard offspring from hell of ioctl() and user defined twitter message-sized metadata. The user-defined metadata could theoretically be exported so that we could all run 'tracker' really really slowly over NFS, but that would just encourage the people who believe that running an ioctl() over the network would be a really neat idea. named attributes have nothing to do with xattrs. They are a limited form of the subfile concept that looks good on paper, but has rarely been useful for anything other than storing icon images. Meh... > ----- "Trond Myklebust" <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > No. We will never support xattrs over NFS. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: linux-nfs-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-nfs- > > > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tomasz Chmielewski > > > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 10:14 AM > > > To: linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: xattr support in NFS? > > > > > > Does Linux support xattr in NFS? > > > > > > IF tries using it in both NFS3 and NFS4 under Debian Lenny (2.6.32, > > both > > > server and client), without success. > > > > > > # setfattr -n user.comment -v "this is a comment" /mnt/nfs > > > setfattr: /mnt/nfs: Operation not supported > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Tomasz Chmielewski > > > http://blog.wpkg.org > > > -- > > > 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 > > N�����r��y���b�X��ǧv�^�){.n�+����{���"��^n�r���z���h����&���G���h�(�階�ݢj"���m�����z�ޖ���f���h���~�m� > -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{��w��� jg��� �����ݢj����G���� ���j:+v���w�m������w�������h�����٥
