[Labeled-nfs] Current development prototype patches.

[James Morris]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> I would like to ask opinions on a less EA centric mechanism for setting labels
> from userland.  As we're pursuing a labeling solution that does not rely on
> EAs for persistent storage (from the client's point of view) it becomes
> difficult to shoehorn things so that userland tools work as expected.

EAs are an established API for manipulating fs labels under Linux.  I 
think it's good from a userland consistency point of view to maintain EAs 
as the labeling API for NFS.  The user-visible API does not necessarily 
need to match the mechanism used to transfer labels over the wire (indeed, 
NFSv4 ACLS under Linux use EAs locally but not on the wire).

Perhaps I'm missing something -- can you provide an example of how you're 
having to shoehorn things ?

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James Morris
<jmorris at namei.org>