Re: [PATCH 0/8] Support btime and other NFSv4 specific attributes

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On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 4:34 PM J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 03:48:46PM -0500, trondmy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > NFSv4 has support for a number of extra attributes that are of interest
> > to Samba when it is used to re-export a filesystem to Windows clients.
> > Aside from the btime, which is of interest in statx(), Windows clients
> > have an interest in determining the status of the 'hidden', and 'system'
> > flags.
> > Backup programs want to read the 'archive' flags and the 'time backup'
> > attribute.
> > Finally, the 'offline' flag can tell whether or not a file needs to be
> > staged by an HSM system before it can be read or written to.
> >
> > The patch series also adds an ioctl() to allow userspace retrieval and
> > setting of these attributes where appropriate. It also adds an ioctl()
> > to allow retrieval of the raw NFSv4 ACCESS information, to allow more
> > fine grained determination of the user's access rights to a file or
> > directory. All of this information is of use for Samba.
>
> Same question, what filesystem and server are you testing against?

I have tested the patch set against the Netapp filer. generic/528
tests the btime attribute. I'm not sure if xfstests has any other
tests for archive, offline, hidden attributes.

>
> --b.
>
> >
> > Anne Marie Merritt (3):
> >   nfs: Add timecreate to nfs inode
> >   nfs: Add 'archive', 'hidden' and 'system' fields to nfs inode
> >   nfs: Add 'time backup' to nfs inode
> >
> > Richard Sharpe (1):
> >   NFS: Support statx_get and statx_set ioctls
> >
> > Trond Myklebust (4):
> >   NFS: Expand the type of nfs_fattr->valid
> >   NFS: Return the file btime in the statx results when appropriate
> >   NFSv4: Support the offline bit
> >   NFSv4: Add an ioctl to allow retrieval of the NFS raw ACCESS mask
> >
> >  fs/nfs/dir.c              |  71 ++---
> >  fs/nfs/getroot.c          |   3 +-
> >  fs/nfs/inode.c            | 147 +++++++++-
> >  fs/nfs/internal.h         |  10 +
> >  fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c         |   1 +
> >  fs/nfs/nfs4_fs.h          |  31 +++
> >  fs/nfs/nfs4file.c         | 550 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c         | 175 +++++++++++-
> >  fs/nfs/nfs4trace.h        |   8 +-
> >  fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c          | 240 +++++++++++++++--
> >  fs/nfs/nfstrace.c         |   5 +
> >  fs/nfs/nfstrace.h         |   9 +-
> >  fs/nfs/proc.c             |   1 +
> >  include/linux/nfs4.h      |   1 +
> >  include/linux/nfs_fs.h    |  15 ++
> >  include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h |   2 +-
> >  include/linux/nfs_xdr.h   |  80 ++++--
> >  include/uapi/linux/nfs.h  | 101 +++++++
> >  18 files changed, 1356 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.33.1



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