From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfsv3: convert xattrs to generic xattr API
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:30:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090315073033.GA3008@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0903101253190.22273-CK9fWmtY32x9JUWOpEiw7w@public.gmane.org>
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 01:11:50PM +1100, James Morris wrote:
> Recently, I've been working on an implementation of an xattr protocol for
> NFSv3 (based on the Irix stuff).
>
> The first logical step is to convert the existing xattr use to the generic
> xattr API code. I figured this might be a useful change in its own right,
> per the patch below. It seems to work ok with various hand-made tests of
> ACL operations and xattr syscalls.
>
> Please review (and apply if it looks ok).
The get/srt bits looks good to me, bu I really don't see the point
of using generic_listxattr.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-15 7:30 UTC|newest]
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2009-03-10 2:11 [PATCH] nfsv3: convert xattrs to generic xattr API James Morris
[not found] ` <alpine.LRH.2.00.0903101253190.22273-CK9fWmtY32x9JUWOpEiw7w@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-15 7:30 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-03-15 22:52 ` James Morris
[not found] ` <alpine.LRH.2.00.0903160942050.25038-CK9fWmtY32x9JUWOpEiw7w@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-17 7:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
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