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From: DENIEL Philippe <philippe.deniel@cea.fr>
To: "Matt W. Benjamin" <matt@linuxbox.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
	Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: xattr support in NFS?
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:54:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A1FCB2.9090502@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <939474821.100.1352749795732.JavaMail.root@thunderbeast.private.linuxbox.com>

A few years ago, SGI tried to promote "NFS3 XATTR", an extension to 
NFSv3 to add xattr support. It roughly added 3 functions to the protocol 
(GETXATTR, SETXATTR, LISTXATTR), in a similar way as what 9p.2000L does. 
Nothing but IRIX had this NFSv3 feature. As far as I know, it remained 
quite exotic and stayed a SGI's thing.

    Philippe

Matt W. Benjamin a écrit :
> Can you restate reasoning why it will never do so, and whether this is the same as saying it will never implement named attributes?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
> ----- "Trond Myklebust" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> No. We will never support xattrs over NFS.
>>
>>     
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-nfs-
>>> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Chmielewski
>>> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 10:14 AM
>>> To: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
>>> Subject: xattr support in NFS?
>>>
>>> Does Linux support xattr in NFS?
>>>
>>> IF tries using it in both NFS3 and NFS4 under Debian Lenny (2.6.32,
>>>       
>> both
>>     
>>> server and client), without success.
>>>
>>> # setfattr -n user.comment -v "this is a comment" /mnt/nfs
>>> setfattr: /mnt/nfs: Operation not supported
>>>
>>>
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>>> Tomasz Chmielewski
>>> http://blog.wpkg.org
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-13  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-12 15:14 xattr support in NFS? Tomasz Chmielewski
2012-11-12 15:56 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-11-12 19:49   ` Matt W. Benjamin
2012-11-12 20:23     ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-11-13  7:54     ` DENIEL Philippe [this message]
     [not found]       ` <CAGue13o69+M4zDrHj3Cs5dSJz_bT49UPoBO=QKr+JCnXwYgcqg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-14 15:03         ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-11-14 15:20           ` Matt W. Benjamin
2012-11-14 17:03             ` Myklebust, Trond
     [not found]           ` <CAGue13puoByUyEn6WAP4z+Csom7chv3VUsSAmb-ZP0gN7DaKTA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-15 18:23             ` Myklebust, Trond
     [not found] <440439536.71.1352923952209.JavaMail.root@thunderbeast.private.linuxbox.com>
2012-11-14 20:13 ` Matt W. Benjamin

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