[Labeled-nfs] Current development prototype patches.

[Casey Schaufler]

--- Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> wrote:

> 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.

James Buster gets the credit for writing the code,
with some enhancement by Lanchlan McElroy.

> And SGI even released the xdr en/decoding files
> under GPL a while ago.

Richard Offer did all the work on getting it pushed out.

> A lot nicer than either the SUN NFSv3 ACL
> extensions or the whole subfile bullshit added to NFSv4.

Thank you. It's amazing what you can do when simplicity is
a design center.


Casey Schaufler
casey at schaufler-ca.com