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 17:32:53 -0400 Message-ID: <51B79785.80901@hcjb.org> References: <51B6584B.8010906@hcjb.org> <51B724CE.5060706@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: 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 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" 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 addressed in a newer version of the CIFS client.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