Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:49:55 -0500 (EST)
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
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Subject: Re: xattr support in NFS?
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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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