[Labeled-nfs] Current development prototype patches.

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 11:38:06AM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> I agree. EAs over NFS are not very hard. Have you seen the SGI published
> xattr extension? It's not large or particularly complex, and it has 
> about 10 years exposure in the Unix environment.

It's extremly nice.  And SGI even released the xdr en/decoding files
under GPL a while ago.  A lot nicer than either the SUN NFSv3 ACL
extensions or the whole subfile bullshit added to NFSv4.

> > Perhaps I'm missing something -- can you provide an example of how you're 
> > having to shoehorn things ?
> 
> Again, me too. Are you worried about translation issues?
> Or do you just dislike the attr(1) command as much as I do?

No need to use attr(1), linux also has the getfattr/setfattr tools
from the Posix draft.  I really  wish we could split them from all the
IRIX compat baggage in the attr package.