From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ted Miller Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: xattr "trusted" namespace Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:23:26 -0400 Message-ID: <51B724CE.5060706@hcjb.org> References: <51B6584B.8010906@hcjb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: To: Steve French Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-cifs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Since I don't usually do things on the "bleeding edge" of the Linux kernel, could you give me a "ballpark" idea of when a 'stable' kernel version that includes this functionality might be out? Ted Miller On 6/10/2013 10:37 PM, Steve French wrote: > I have patches for cifs kernel client for this. Jeremy Allison was > almost done server patches for samba for the other end. > > On Jun 10, 2013 6:06 PM, "Ted Miller" wrote: >> (If this is the wrong place to ask this question, please feel free to point me in a different direction.) >> >> I am working on a system that needs to be able to write to the xattr namespace "trusted", as in trusted.xyz. I only need this support from the Linux client, as the target file is being served by a Windows server. I have tried this using Centos (same package versions as RHEL) 6.4, and the writes all fail with the default client. I am hoping that this has been addressed in a newer version of the CIFS client. >> >> Is the "trusted" namespace accessible in the current Linux CIFS client? If so, what version of which file(s) do I need to look for? >> >> Thank you, >> Ted Miller >> Elkhart, IN, USA