On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 11:05 -0400, Matt W. Benjamin wrote: +AD4- Hi, +AD4- +AD4- Presumably Linux client and server implementations would restrict use of +ACI-system.+ACI- +AD4- Perhaps would be more to talk about, if xattrs were implemented experimentally. +AD4- +AD4- I'm interested in knowing about patches that might be floating around for the Linux client, for NFSv4.x. (I've seen NFSv3 work.) +AD4- +AD4- Thanks, +AD4- +AD4- Matt We've already talked about this, Matt. The answer is still NO. Trond +AD4- ----- +ACI-Trond Myklebust+ACI- +ADw-Trond.Myklebust+AEA-netapp.com+AD4- wrote: +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- On Oct 24, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer +AD4- +AD4- +ADw-calestyo+AEA-scientia.net+AD4- wrote: +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 08:45 +-0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote: +AD4- +AD4- +AD4APg- labeled NFS (i.e. security labels for NFS) is already supported in +AD4- +AD4- Linux 3.10 and newer. +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- Sure, but that doesn't really help me. +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4APg- There are no plans to merge general purpose xattrs. +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- Why not? Is it a big deal? +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- Linux xattrs are a rabid mess. +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- The whole +ACI-system+ACI- namespace is something that cannot and should not +AD4- +AD4- ever be exposed on a network. +AD4- +AD4- The +ACI-trusted+ACI- and +ACI-user+ACI- namespaces just offer specialised storage. +AD4- +AD4- Why are they needed? +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4APg- Please just use an application-specific database. +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- Well that won't work,... since that wouldn't be updated if e.g. +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- pathnames are changed by any program (cp, mv) +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- If the data needs to follow the file, then store it in the file. Why +AD4- +AD4- do you need the filesystem to manage that for you? +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- Cheers +AD4- +AD4- Trond-- +AD4- +AD4- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line +ACI-unsubscribe linux-nfs+ACI- +AD4- +AD4- in +AD4- +AD4- the body of a message to majordomo+AEA-vger.kernel.org +AD4- +AD4- More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html +AD4- -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust+AEA-netapp.com www.netapp.com -- 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
