From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: Versioning file system Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:50:00 -0400 Message-ID: <20070618205000.GL2334@fieldses.org> References: <46731169.2090002@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <467314E2.9010306@zytor.com> <20070616145337.GA13391@lazybastard.org> <20070618094524.GF5181@schatzie.adilger.int> <20070618140143.GD30244@thunk.org> <20070618172955.GB24189@thunk.org> <20070618173342.GB1152@samba1> <20070618203033.GD24189@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Theodore Tso , Jeremy Allison , alan , =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jack Stone , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Return-path: Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:55703 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763318AbXFRUuW (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:50:22 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070618203033.GD24189@thunk.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:30:33PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > Well, I just want to make sure people know that Samba isn't asking for > it any more, and I don't know of any current requests outstanding from > any of the userspace projects. So there's no one we need to ship off > to the re-education camps about why filesystem fork/streams are a bad > idea. :-) NFSv4 also has support for "named attributes"/forks/streams. As far as I can recall, though, the only requests I've seen for it (aside from people just running through NFSv4 feature checklists) have been from people that really just wanted extended attributes. And it'd probably actually be pretty easy to extend the v4 protocol to support extended attributes if someone wanted to. --b.