Re: XATTRs in NFS?

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On Oct 23, 2013, at 9:37 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I just wondered about the current situation (respectively plans)
> regarding XATTRs in NFS (I personally don't care much about the
> version,... of course v4 would be nice, but v3 should do either).
> 
> 
> I'm aware about the patches for v3 that James Morris has submitted some
> time ago, but AFAICS these were never accepted/merged.
> 
> Asking him (off-list) he mentioned that any such work would need to take
> place in NFS4.
> 
> 
> I've seen some comments from the past, saying that it should never
> happen since it would cause performance issues - but I guess one could
> make it optional.
> 
> 
> I have some use case where I need a network filesystem with XATTR
> support providing the features of most standard filesystems (locking,
> etc.).
> And I'm sure there are plenty more use-cases.
> 
> 
> So are there any plans to get this into NFS?
> 


labeled NFS (i.e. security labels for NFS) is already supported in Linux 3.10 and newer.

There are no plans to merge general purpose xattrs. Please just use an application-specific database.

Cheers
   Trond--
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