Re: XATTRs in NFS?

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linux-nfs-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/26/2013 06:20:12 AM:

> I'd rather look bad for not supporting a broken filesystem feature 
> than have to deal with the abiove mentioned side-effects. Until the 
> xattr interface is properly documented and standardised so that it 
> can be exported safely, it should be treated as a unexportable, in 
> the same way we treat procfs and sysfs.
> 

This sounds more like an NFS server problem than a client side NFS. Can we 
add support to the client side NFS and let server that think that they can 
handle XATTR implement it?

We should probably start a discussion in the IETF to resolve the issues 
you see with XATTR at least for NFSv4.3. 

Marc.

> Cheers
>   Trond--


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