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Subject: Re: [nfsv4] XATTRs in NFS?
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 20:55:06 +0000
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On Oct 28, 2013, at 1:44 PM, Marc Eshel <eshel@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi Spencer, 
> Is it still possible to get on the agenda fir IETF 88, I just got approval 
> to travel. We can use about 15 minutes, or what ever is available to 
> discussion the future of named attributes in NFS. The two main questions 
> that we need answer are: 
> 1. Do we need them? what applications use them and how. 
> 2. Can we have a more simple model that handles just user attributes.
> 
> Input is welcome to help me make the case at the meeting.
> 
> Thanks, Marc.
> 


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