[Labeled-nfs] Current development prototype patches.

Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust at fys.uio.no
Mon Aug 6 15:09:48 EDT 2007


On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 19:51 +0100, Christoph Hellwig 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.  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.

Ugh. Yet another RPC sideband protocol?

Trond



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