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From: "Matt W. Benjamin" <matt@linuxbox.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: xattr support in NFS?
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:49:55 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <939474821.100.1352749795732.JavaMail.root@thunderbeast.private.linuxbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA345DA4F4AE44899BD2B03EEEC2FA9092D337E@SACEXCMBX04-PRD.hq.netapp.com>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-12 19:55 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 [this message]
2012-11-12 20:23     ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-11-13  7:54     ` DENIEL Philippe
     [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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