On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 01:54:47PM -0700, Anand Avati wrote: > >2. Why are current named attributes in NFS not the right answer. > > I think they might be, if we can map user.XXXX xattrs to named > attributes and avoid any sort of interpretation of they key/values > by NFS. Though from my point of view, all I care is for > getxattr/setxattr of user.XXX keys to "just work" (whether they are > mapped to named attributes or implemented as a separate feature). That's an open question. Are writes to xattrs supposed to be atomic? Anyways, it seems at least one filesystem (XFS) maps xattrs onto a hidden data fork (named attribute) for that purpose. So, I'm guessing: a) no, they're not atomic, b) named attributes should work... c) if only we had a namespace to steal names from for this purpose. Nico -- -- 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
