Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 12:44:34PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > You're arguing for treating FV as extended/named attributes :)
> > >
> > > I think that'd be the right thing to do, since we have tools that are
> > > aware of those already. Of course, we're talking about somewhat magical
> > > attributes, but I think that's fine (though, IIRC, NFSv4 [RFC3530] has
> > > some strange verbiage limiting attributes to "applications").
> >
> > I thought NFSv4 supports extended attributes. What "limiting" are you
> > aware of?
>
> It does. I meant this on pg. 12:
>
> [...] Named attributes
> are meant to be used by client applications as a method to associate
> application specific data with a regular file or directory.
FreeBSD and Linux implement something different also called extended attributes.
There should be a possibility to map from FreeBSD/Linux to Solaris.
> and this on pg. 36:
>
> Named attributes are intended for data needed by applications rather
> than by an NFS client implementation. NFS implementors are strongly
> encouraged to define their new attributes as recommended attributes
> by bringing them to the IETF standards-track process.
See above... Since the extended attributes appeared on a Solaris ( 8 update???),
I was looking for a way to map simple exteneded attribute implementation as
those on Mac OS, FreeBSD and Linux to the more general implementation on
Solaris.
Before we start defining the first offocial functionality for this Sun feature,
we should define a mapping for Mac OS, FreeBSD and Linux. It may make sense, to
define a sub directory for the attribute directory for keeping old versions
of a file.
Jörg
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