On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 08:55:06PM +0000, Haynes, Tom wrote: > > On Oct 28, 2013, at 1:44 PM, Marc Eshel <eshel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi Spencer, > > Is it still possible to get on the agenda fir IETF 88, I just got approval > > to travel. We can use about 15 minutes, or what ever is available to > > discussion the future of named attributes in NFS. The two main questions > > that we need answer are: > > 1. Do we need them? what applications use them and how. > > 2. Can we have a more simple model that handles just user attributes. > > > > Input is welcome to help me make the case at the meeting. > > > > Thanks, Marc. > > > > > Be sure to call out why they currently do or do not work. And we also need to keep clear the distinctions between: - NFSv4 named attributes/streams/forks and "extended attributes" as implemented in Linux and elsewhere. - user.* xattrs and "back-door ioctls". (Your description above seems to confuse named attributes and Linux extended attributes.) --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
