MCS article

[James Morris]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Stephen Smalley wrote:

> When I mentioned that the NFSv4 named attributes might not be suitable
> for our purposes to the Trusted Solaris folks, they said that they
> should be and that any lack there is one of the Linux implementation,
> not the protocol definition or its intended implementation.

This thread contains some discussion on the issue:
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/nfsv4/current/msg02336.html

IIRC, the consensus on the issue is to look at adding new OPs for 
Linux/BSD extended attributes.



- James
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James Morris <jmorris at namei.org>