MCS article

[James Carter]

There was a question last week on the NFSv4 mailing list about support
for other ACL models and there seemed to be interest in the idea.  It
just doesn't seem to be a big priority right now.

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 09:37 -0500, James Morris wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, James Carter wrote:
> 
> > The NFSv4 named attributes are still not implemented on Linux although
> > there has been talk about them over the last month on the NFSv4 mailing
> > list.  Support is just being added to allow specifying a security flavor
> > for each export.
> 
> It's my understanding that these named attributes are not compatible with 
> Linux/BSD extended attributes, as they're based on Solaris ones, which are 
> actually subfiles.
> 
> 
> - James
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James Carter <jwcart2 at epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency