Re: Enhancement needed to UNIX extensions to correctly support Linux EA's.

[Jeremy Allison <jra-eUNUBHrolfbYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:29:57AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:33:01 -0700
> Jeremy Allison <jra-eUNUBHrolfbYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 04:28:36PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> > > Seems like a reasonable request.   What version of kernel do you want
> > > me to give you some test patches for?
> > 
> > Well first let's work out the wire format, then we
> > can look at implementations.
> > 
> > I'm assuming you'll be re-using the existing
> > EA marshalling/de-marshalling code, so let's
> > decide exactly which Windows info-level we
> > want to base it on.
> > 
> > Jeremy.
> 
> Yeah, sounds reasonable to me too. We currently only use:
> 
>     SMB_INFO_QUERY_ALL_EAS
>     SMB_SET_FILE_EA
> 
> However, the current marshalling/unmarshalling code is a bit of a mess,
> so if it makes sense to depart from how those work then we can do so.

Yeah, but we already have working server-side marshalling/unmarshalling code,
so I'd rather not invent a new mechanism, other than specify that the
EA name be in utf8 rather than DOS charset.

> Note that we ought to add a new unix capability bit for this too.

Yep, and also raise the minor version number.

Jeremy.