On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 06:07:46PM +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote: > The user xattrs are in principle harmless. What about "trusted.*"? trusted ones are still fairly harmless and exist in most implementations under a slightly different name. They aren't quite as essential, though. The important point is to not carry over the system and security namespacs. Those are a bad and Linux specific mistake to abuse the xattr interface for all kinds of other interfaces. This isn't something that should be carried over to other standards. -- 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