Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:51:16 +1000 (EST)
From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
        Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
        linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
        Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8][RFC v05] NFSv3: add client implementation of XATTR
 protocol
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On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> Is there really much interest in adding NFSv4 support for xattrs beyond
> the security label use case?

I'm not sure -- I would imagine the rationale would be similar to the case 
for named attributes.  I'll see if I can find out more from desktop 
developers.


- James
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James Morris
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