Re: Fwd: Re: xattr "trusted" namespace

[Ted Miller <tmiller-fFyIe9EmHoY@public.gmane.org>]

If I want to patch my own kernel, would it work as far back as 2.6.32 (used 
by current Centos/RHEL)?  Or is it one of those "try it and see" things 
(since the virtual machine wouldn't be doing much else)?
Ted Miller

On 6/11/2013 9:30 AM, Steve French wrote:
> Assuming Jeremy doesn't run into a strange obstacles on the server
> side (requiring protocol changes) - I would expect that the client
> side would be in 3.11 kernel (the merge window for 3.11 will open in
> about 3 weeks), and the patches are small enough to be easy to
> backport if distros wanted.
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Ted Miller <tmiller-fFyIe9EmHoY@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> 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" <tmiller-fFyIe9EmHoY@public.gmane.org> 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 addressed in a newer version of the CIFS client.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