Re: Linux client access to NFSv4 Alternate Data Streams (O_XATTR)?

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On 2 December 2013 16:21, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 03:27:20PM +0100, Sebastian Feld wrote:
>> This isn't a Solaris-specific extension, its part of the original Sun
>> NFSv4 spec. Unfortunately the ARC/ARchitecture Cases from
>> Opensolaris.org are no longer available, otherwise the background,
>> e.g. feature parity with CIFS/NTFS, and the overall usefulness of such
>> a feature, would be clearer.
>
> It's a dumb part of the spec, and Linux has no intent support pretty
> braindead file/directory mixups.  Just store all your separate streams
> in separate files, that's how it's implemented underneath anyway.

Please. Please do me the favour and not rule something out that way.
Please hear the arguments and have a discussion.

Ced
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