From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Sebastian Feld <sebastian.n.feld@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
Joshuah Hurst <joshhurst@gmail.com>,
Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux client access to NFSv4 Alternate Data Streams (O_XATTR)?
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 07:21:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131202152102.GA20458@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHnbEG+cJGjx7o=+ZASNo7ddc0O9hYG4fE0EAQ2hoh688nBBeQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 03:27:20PM +0100, Sebastian Feld wrote:
> This isn't a Solaris-specific extension, its part of the original Sun
> NFSv4 spec. Unfortunately the ARC/ARchitecture Cases from
> Opensolaris.org are no longer available, otherwise the background,
> e.g. feature parity with CIFS/NTFS, and the overall usefulness of such
> a feature, would be clearer.
It's a dumb part of the spec, and Linux has no intent support pretty
braindead file/directory mixups. Just store all your separate streams
in separate files, that's how it's implemented underneath anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-02 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-02 12:13 Linux client access to NFSv4 Alternate Data Streams (O_XATTR)? Joshuah Hurst
2013-12-02 13:29 ` Trond Myklebust
2013-12-02 14:27 ` Sebastian Feld
2013-12-02 15:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2013-12-02 19:27 ` Cedric Blancher
2013-12-03 9:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-02 16:07 ` Trond Myklebust
2013-12-02 19:24 ` Cedric Blancher
2013-12-02 20:11 ` Trond Myklebust
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